Re: XyWin & bug vs. feature

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to note from "Bob Brody"  Thu, 16 Jan 1997 04:00:32 +0000 
   
> On 16 Jan 97 at 2:10, Robert Holmgren wrote: 
   
>> What, pray, is the difference between Xy4's Page-Line Mode and 
>> Xy3+'s Draft [nonP-L] Mode (apart from a little horizontal line 
>> marking page breaks)? 
   
> If I'm working in draft view, take a wild guess which view I want 
> to be working in? If I wanted to be switched into Page-Line with 
> annoying page breaks all over the place, then *I'll* switch to it. 
 
Fine, Bob. What does my program do except meet that need? My point is 
rather different. I'm saying that what XyWrite involuntarily toggles 
you into is *precisely* the mode you are *always* in with 3+. That, 
therefore, it is ridiculous to make an argument (as some have) for 3-Plus's 
superiority on account of this "bug". I'm saying further that 4 gives 
you a mode which 3+ never offered (nobody _ever_ mentions that!). 
The simple workaround which I offered in my program 
ensures that you retain that mode regardless of EDITOR's desire to toggle 
you out.

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Robert Holmgren 
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