Re: Defining 'preferred form for making modifications'

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> writes:

> On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 13:30 US/Eastern, Thomas Bushnell, BSG
> wrote:
> 
> > Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:
> >
> >> Do you mean by that that if I use an editor that does not have a
> >> save format that losslessly reproduces all of its internal state,
> >> then I can only distribute the output under the GPL if I also ship a
> >> revivable core dump of the editor?
> >
> > Is there such an editor?
> 
> gvim is one example. It doesn't save (in the file) such things as
> command-line history, cursor position, hilite state, last search,
> window size and position, numerous option settings, etc. Many of those
> --- especially the command line history --- can be quite useful.

I don't think that state is part of the text file, whereas .xcf files
*are* frequently saved, copied, stored, and modified.