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|    Janis Papanagnou to Lawrence D'Oliveiro    |
|    Re: Emacs    |
|    05 Mar 24 06:25:52    |
      From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com              On 05.03.2024 04:22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:       > Emacs is the world’s most powerful editor.              And I mistook it for an IDE that is yet incapable of brewing coffee. :-)              >       > Note I didn’t say “text editor”. Emacs can be used to edit binary       files,       > too. It doesn’t assume that a file is made up of “lines”.              Isn't that a not uncommon editor feature? (I've seen it in several       places.) - In Vim there is (to my knowledge) no built-in support;       you use existing tools like xxd from within Vim. Not sure there's       an advantage to have an own implementation built in.              > [...]       >       > For example, I wrote expand/collapse commands which selectively show/hide       > parts of the buffer contents.              Is that the same that is called "folding" in Vim? (Vim supports a       couple folding methods.)              Janis              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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