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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: 29 May 2004 23:11:59 -0400
> 
> > Windows Notepad is often held up as an example of the most
> > featureless text editor.
> 
> It's all relative.  From what I heard it has fairly good unicode support by
> Emacs standards (such as bidi).

Actually, the bidi support in Notepad is quite awful.  Of course,
it's much better than what Emacs currently has...

> In any case, I think it would be good to have word-wrapping in the display.
> But I also think we should postpone discussion to after-21.4.

Agreed on both counts.