Shmuel said
>    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.

Well now to be completely fair, that is exactly what I said. Your edit
implies otherwise. 

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