Neat little .newsrc fixer-upper.

[Pete Holsberg]

In article <2116 at mipos3.intel.com> nate at mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess) writes:
...In article <3931 at killer.UUCP> jfh at killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
...>[...] I wrote it because my .newsrc on killer was in bad shape and
...>couldn't be edited because some of the lines were too long.
...
...Ah, but you *could* have edited it had you been using Emacs instead of
...vi...

Could you explain that?  What is there about emacs that lets it edit
.newsrc, and what is there about vi that forbids it?  Thanks.