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Re: Bug#776413: The priority of the ed package



Dear Ian,

On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 11:49AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

> This makes it sound theoretical, or a question of breaking people's
> `finger macros'.  That is indeed annoying.  But there is a much more
> serious practical point, which Paul Hardy touches on.
>
> There are still situations, even in modern systems, where the terminal
> connection is limited to a serial line or equivalent.  In that
> situation full-screen editors tend to malfunction because they do not
> know the screen size (or, sometimes, terminal type).
> [...]

Could you copy these comments to the relevant Policy bugs, please?  They
will be relevant whenever someone decides to push those bugs forward.

#452393 and/or #776557.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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