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Aucb.271 fa.editor-p utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Tue Jan 12 14:35:21 1982

>From neves@mit-vax@mit-xx Wed Jan 6 19:12:17 1982 I have a minor comment about extensibility.

One of the great virtues of an Emacs or a Unix is that however horrid the interface might be (and I'm not saying Emacs is particularly bad) the user can change it. In Emacs s/he can change the definitions that go with the keys, in Unix one simple thing is to alias user defined names to the non-mnemonic names (like cat or ls). Unfortunately there is a major problem when one does this and that is when one goes to *another* computer that uses the same system or uses a *different* account on the same computer. In these cases your customized init file is not read in. I then have recover from the errors I get from my largely automatic behavior and try to recall what the "Standard" is. This is so confusing for me that I do not use the extensible features of these systems.

-dave neves

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