Neat little .newsrc fixer-upper.

[John Owens]

In article <606 at mccc.UUCP>, pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
> Could you explain that?  What is there about emacs that lets it edit
> .newsrc, and what is there about vi that forbids it?  Thanks.

It doesn't have to do with .newsrc specifically; it's just that most
implementations of emacs have no restrictions on the length of a single
line, but vi does.


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