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From: David Lukes <davel@luchie-chowchows.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] User Interface
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:04:21 +0100
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(Yes, I know this is OT,
 but there's a serious underlying point.)

> the implementation of ~ was to peek at the character you're sitting
> on and then push back on input:
> 
>     rCl
> 
> where C is the character in the other case.  the count gets lost due
> to the 'loop' and the pushback iirc.

It's worse than that, Jim:
in later versions they hacked in a fixed length local buffer and ...
(you can guess the rest).

The serious point is that editors shouldn't do stuff like translation:
that's much better left to specialised external utilities and
smooth interfaces to use them from the editor.

Cheers,
	Dave.