Thursday, April 20, 2000, 3:10:33 PM, Allie wrote:
> Just for effect, I changed, my wrapping to 55
> characters and used autoformat to rewrap your text. See
> the preservation of all spaces and the preserved
> indentation. :-)
Autoformat has its own set of quirks. That is the trend I am talking
about. We each have a certain way of editing, a certain way we feel editing
should be done. In general people will eventually find an editor which fits
their needs nicely. I do not believe any one editor can do it effectively. I
do believe that a multitude of editors with a multitude of different behaviors
(quirks) will, as a whole, fit the grand majority of the people. Trying to
shoehorn TB!'s editor into that role /will/ fail. To date, after 20-30 years
of computer evolution we still do not have the ONE TRUE EDITOR (insert choir
hit here). Not Emacs, not [el|n]vi[s|m], not joe, not notepad, fte, etc, etc,
etc, etc, etc, etc, etc!
The only way to appease even /most/ of the people /most/ of the time is to
not address the problem at all.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
--
--------------------------------------------------------------
View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com
To send a message to the list moderation team double click here:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--------------------------------------------------------------
You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
