Re: saved replacement texts?

[John (For the colours are many, but the light is one.) Mackin <john@ civil.su.oz.au>]

    Oh, come off your high-horse. Emacs has a command-line which is
    separate from the current window. Obviously Scott was not talking
    about replacing the command window with the new file.

Well, hell.  How about cutting me some slack, Byron?  I can only go by
what the words in the mail actually say.  If I were being deliberately
obtuse, you'd have a case.  I wasn't.  _I_ don't know how emacs's user
interface works -- I've never had to use the damned thing.  I thought this
was the sam list, not the emacs list.  What may be `obvious' to someone
who's used the software is by no means obvious to someone who hasn't.

    I agree. But I don't think he achieved perfection, nor do I think
    that suggestions for improvement are inappropriate.

What I think would be appropriate would be for people who've just started
using the editor since it's been available free to accumulate four years
worth of experience with it before leaping to suggest how it should be
improved.

It would also be as well to remember that sam's interface was designed
to integrate nicely with its surrounding window system environment, viz.
mux on the Jerq.  Since ordinary X environments are nothing like that,
and since X literally _cannot_ be made to be _precisely_ like that (I
tried very hard), sam tends not be that well-integrated with the usual
X environment.

Of course, it's the X environment that's wrong here (grin).

OK,
John.