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February 2000, Week 4

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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:06:51 -0500
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Thus it was written in the epistle of Wirt Atmar,
>
> Use the line modify key (F1) to choose which behavior you want at any moment
> in your editing process.

But Wirt, the line modify key (besides being another key to press) changes
other things as well.  It is not unusual for me to want to cut and paste 2.7
lines where I want the first 2 lines to have their carriage returns and I do
not want the final line fragment to have one because I'm going to be typing
something after it.  Besides, if you are concerned about this being easy for
Windows users to learn (as you have said previously), ought you not then give
them the expected behaviour?

Ted
--
Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
          ==========================================================
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment....We are told
that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a
drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this
greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
                         -- Whitehead, Alfred North

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