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- From: skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok)
- Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.063202.14799@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Organization: Inst. f. Thermodynamik u. Waermetechnik (ITW), U. of Stuttgart, FRG
- References: <1992Sep5.221526.10841@uc.msc.edu> <Bu94Kw.4Mz@csn.org> <1992Sep8.210501.2783@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:32:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.210501.2783@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard) writes:
- >bell@teal.csn.org (Bell Scott) writes:
- [... stuff deleted]
- >
- >Finally, emacs (and Alpha) are completely extensible, since the provide an
- >underlying language in which you can add new functionality to the program.
- >If there's something that Word doesn't do that you decide you need, you're
- >stuck. In emacs and Alpha you can often just implement it yourself.
- >
- Don't the common Mac word processors have macro languages to allow you
- to add extra functions?
-
- Not that I much care for those, since using them you're basically back
- to BASIC - interpreted language, no debugging, and, of course, sloooow!
- :-)
- HSK
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