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 imagine emacs, being bloated, has far more.