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floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:

> That definition is not particularly good.  Using it make a modeless
> editor impossible.

That is quite likely, yes.

> I'll stick with VI being modeful and Emacs modeless.  And will
> reject as obviously flawed *any* definitions that do not work with
> that premise.  That is an intrinsic difference between those two
> editors.

Good for you.