In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
03/27/2007
at 09:28 AM, "Craddock, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>But... while you can scroll left and right and play games with
>inserts and shifts and nulls and so forth, only a masochist would
>claim it works well for unstructured data and long lines.
Similarly, only a masochist would claim that a character editor with
line wrap works well for long lines and columnar data. Don't throw
away your screw driver just because it does a poor job on nails.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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