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- From: duvalld@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Danek Duvall)
- Subject: Re: Editor for Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.013604.17781@liberty.uc.wlu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:36:04 GMT
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- Organization: Washington & Lee University
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- O R Vellacott (oliver@castle.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
- : duvalld@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Danek Duvall) writes:
- :
- : >There are, of course, many wonderful features, and even some more to come...
- :
- : There is one feature that I would very much like to see in PFE, which
- : could decide whether or not I decide to switch to it from Demacs
- : (which is wonderful, but only runs in DOS real mode), and that is
- : arbitrary level undo/redo. I use this all the time in Demacs -- it
- : means that even if you accidentally make lots of changes that you
- : didn't mean to, you can undo them all instead of just the most recent
- : one. Does (or will) PFE do this? (The undo facility didn't seem to
- : work at all in the beta version).
- Yes, this will be included in the release version, along with automated
- backups and line-wrapping (man, do I need that) and even nicities like box
- mode text selection, etc., etc...
-
- : While I am here, I seem to remember someone saying that there was a
- : version of Gnu Emacs which runs under Windows NT, which I have just
- : installed. Can anyone tell me where I can find this?
- I believe you can find it at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the nt directory.
-
- : Colin F. Caughie (borrowing O.R.Vellacott's account)
- : cfc@ee.ed.ac.uk
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- Danek Duvall: Washington and Lee U.
- Internet: duvalld@liberty.uc.wlu.edu
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