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- From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Undoing, Emacs and unlimited files ... summery.
- Message-ID: <MEISSNER.92Jul30172952@tiktok.osf.org>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:29:52 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: hbawl@usmi02.midland.chevron.com's message of 29 Jul 92 13:39:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.133925.18820@usho93.hou281.chevron.com>
- hbawl@usmi02.midland.chevron.com (Wilber L. Baker) writes:
-
- | Speaking of 'logging'.... No one has mentioned the VMS editors
- | EDT / EVE / (other TPU derivatives). I don't know about 'unlimited
- | undo' (I've never put them through the test), but the probably are
- | close since they go through so much pain to keep a JOURNAL file of
- | every keystroke ever pressed.
- |
- | It's wild and wacky fun to be kicked off the system, get back in,
- | then activate the JOURNAL file to recover all of your edits.
-
- I believe that CCA emacs does/did that (at least the Data General port
- of CCA emacs did).
-
- | It's especially fun when logged on from a 1200 baud terminal
- | ....NOT!
-
- For similar fun, you could do M-x open-dribble-file under GNU emacs,
- and then cat the file to your screen.
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- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861
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- You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.
-