Subject: Suggestion for pico

From: Henry Kuo <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 17:53:29 -0800 (PST)

Hi! 

Is that possible to  add line and position counter on pico?   That will 
be helpful for people who use pico to write program.  Thanks!!

=Henry=

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 20:33:26 -0800 (PST)

Henry,

^C will give you that information as a command.  I think it would be 
pretty crowded to put it in the header...

Thanks for the suggestion!

--DLM

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From: Henry Kuo <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 20:57:36 -0800 (PST)

> pretty crowded to put it in the header...

However, it only  tells you which line; it doesn't say which position.  
For example, for Fortran programmers, they need to know where is 7 and 70.

=Henry=

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From: Norm Aleks <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 22:01:31 -0800 (PST)

> For example, for Fortran programmers, they need to know where is 7 and 70.

I don't know about this one ... it seems irrelevant for an integrated mail
editor to show line and column.  And Pico is *so* far off from being a
decent programmer's editor (that's not a problem, it just reflects Pico's
purpose) that adding line/column won't help. 

Just use Emacs, Henry ...

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