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From: "Johan Henriksson" <johan DOT he AT telia DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Two dumb (but vital) questions
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 23:48:02 +0100
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-----Original Message-----
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: Two dumb (but vital) questions


>
>> Is GNU pronounced GEE-new or guh-NEW?
>
>Well, if you can pronounce it with *no* vowel sounds between the
>G and the N, I think that would be right (is "sky" suh-ky or see-ky?)
>
>Failing that answer being helpful, I pronounce it like guh-new, with
>"g" as in grapes or goodness, but without the "uh" part.
>
>> MIT AI Memo 554 said EMACS is "an advanced, self-documenting,
>> customizable, extensible real-time display editor" What does
>> "real-time" mean? Can you name an editor that is NOT real-time?
>> Perhaps EDLIN? or any line editor?
>
>ed, and vi in non-visual mode, only show you the line you're working
>on, and sometimes only part of it.  There's a separate command to list
>the lines you're working on.  Emacs, at least, shows you what the file
>looks like at all times.
>
>> Technically the editing is not done until the file is saved, so how
>> can even EMACS be called real-time?
>
>Meaning you see the results of you edits as you do them, rather than
>having to say "change this line, now show me what it looks like".
>In case you haven't guessed, emacs has been around for a while :-)
>

Well, why not send in a message on this totally meaningless discussion.

Realtime is when the program don't wait for the user to do something. If an
editor is realtime, something's really wrong about the design or there has
been some missunderstanding somewhere...