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Aucbvax.4213 fa.editor-p utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!network Sun Oct 4 07:33:52 1981 Re: emacs and unix In-Reply-To: Message of 2 October 1981 14:13 edt from ARPANET site UCB-C70 rcvd

The issues that I was addressing were neither those of monolithicity of user community nor programming language. The kind of thing I meant is uniform screen management, window treatment and so forth all over the operating system. If you click the mouse on a window, EDITOR or OTHERWISE, a certain uniform thing happens. The editor can share the screen with other programs. Its window can be reshaped or moved like other programs' windows.

The relevant issue in the Lisp machine's approach here is global screen management and an editor inferior to that, which is certainly relevant to integrated and timely design in any operating system.

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