Re: Possible activity heading towards XyWrite replacement

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

wbass@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I think you missed the point. The issue is not how the character is
> displayed -- it's that the color attribute is information that can be
> attached individually to each character in a buffer,
This, and much else in the post, makes me think that your use of
Xy or Epsilon (and did you ever look at RegexBuddy?) is quite
different from what most? Many? of us do. You seem to need a text
manipulator, rather than a basic editor with some manipulating
functions. For that, Xy may not be the best tool. But those of us
who do print, and use footnotes, and other editing and writing
functions still find Xy--esp. 4--enormously powerful. Besides the
issue of, in my case at least, not wanting to learn a whole new
interface at 68.
From the start, I think, Xy was the writer's and editor's tool
of choice, and it remains that. Programmers may well need
something more.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx