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Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?
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PJ Weisberg |
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Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? |
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Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:21:37 -0800 |
It strikes me that a novel would probably benefit more from version
control than a program. A lost piece of prose seems like it would be
harder to re-implement than a lost piece of functionality. And plenty
of prose gets deleted and mashed around during rewrites and editing.
On 2/25/11, Cthun <cthun_117@qmail.net.au> wrote:
> On 25/02/2011 1:43 PM, Jim Janney wrote:
>> Anything I'm working on that would be expensive to lose goes under
>> version control anyway.
>
> Then woe betide you if you ever work on, say, a novel rather than a
> computer program.
>
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-PJ
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- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Cthun, 2011/02/23
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