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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:42:44 +0200
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From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: code density vs readability
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At 10:22 PM +0200 10/2/01, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>>  I'm not convinced this needs to be part of the editor.  Checkout par
>>  (ports/textproc/par), I think it does everything vim does.
>
>  Well, I want it to be part of the editor.  I use the editor more for
>  normal text than for programming.

	You use "gqap".  I use "{!}par".  What's the difference?

>>  > For programs, I like its syntax highlighting.  I don't know whether
>>  > nvi has that.
>>
>>  I hope not...
>
>  Well, you're obviously not an emacs user, anyway :)

	I definitely like the idea of syntax highlighting.

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