C70:editor-people (06/04/82)
>From LECIN@GREEN Fri Jun 4 04:14:35 1982
I noticed that no one has mentioned Gosling's C Emacs for UNIX (TM)
which supports BOTH modes of operation - where the characters that
run past your right margin are truncated at that column, OR wrapped
onto the next line. (This is a switch setting.)
I also was wondering, anyone ever think of implementing ITS TECO
under UNIX or VMS?
<Mijjil>
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Date: 31 May 1982 00:57-EDT
From: Gail Zacharias <GZ at MIT-MC>
Subject: wrap-at-end-of-line, truncate-chars-past-right-margin
To: Lecin at RUTGERS
cc: EDITOR-PEOPLE at SU-SCORE
The C Emacs most emphatically does not support both modes of operation. It
can truncate lines, but it doesn't have horizontal scrolling and the
semantics of moving the point past the end of a screen line are not well
defined. That's not support, it's a crock.
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Date: 31 May 1982 01:11-EDT (Monday)
From: Mijjil (Matthew J. Lecin) <LECIN at GREEN>
To: Emacs-Hackers at MIT-AI, Editor-People at SU-SCORE
Subject: Z editor
Reply-To: Lecin at RUTGERS
Yes, I agree that the mentioned C Emacs *IS* a crock. The point was
brought up to POINT OUT that it was a crock - and that Gosling (you
listening out there James?) might CONSIDER that sort of horizontal
scrolling as a part of TRUNCATION.
I don't know any terminal besides this "SUN" terminal that can
HARDWARILY handle HORIZONTAL scrolling. I have seen it done on the
OSBORNE-1 micro though...
<Mijjil>