The Great "Hard Return" Debate

[Steve Lamb]

Thursday, November 04, 1999, 6:44:11 PM, Ralph wrote:
> What could be a more obvious speciality for an editor in a mail program
> to possess than the ability to properly reflow and format quotes? 

    To not have an editor at all since a mail program is for retrieval,
reading and sending of mail.

> Quite frankly, it seems somewhat odd that editors other than those in
> mail programs would even have that ability - except maybe to make up
> for deficiencies in various mail programs.<g>

    I find it odd that people insist on several different editors to do the
same basic task.

news - vim
mail - vim
coding (perl, pascal, c, rc files, shell and a few others) - vim


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