Re: Text processor

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

Havoc Pennington <rhp@zirx.pair.com> writes:

> You need to save information such as: the size of the window, the current
> cursor position, etc. That's why you need a proprietary format. You can
> export to other formats if you like.

You don't need to save all of that in the file.  Most of that, I would
consider session management things, but if you wanted to send someone
a document which had the cursor position and window size saved, you
could encode them as comments within the DocBook (or whatever) file.

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