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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   
      
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