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At some point hitherto, Adam S. Moskowitz hath spake thusly:
> "Jerry Feldman" <gaf@blu.org> wrote:
> > where the remote user wants to do more than just some simple editing,
> > something more than a line editor should be more useful. 
> 
> Excuse me? Remember, we're talking about EDITORS here, not WORD
> PROCESSORS. What more is there to do that ed (or maybe ex) can't
> handle?

  - syntax highlighting
  - automatic code formatting
  - paragraph justification
  - automatic word wrapping
  - editing macros (AFAIK)
  - probably a bunch more things that people rely on their editor to
    do on a daily basis

There's not much difference between a text editor and a word
processor.  They both have the same basic purpose: insert and edit
text in a text file.

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