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On 06/18/2016 08:51 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 2:09:31 PM UTC+12, Michael Torrie wrote:
>> It was later on that they figured out the N+1 thing you mentioned
>> by ignoring the character cells:
>> 
>> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 H E L L O W O R L D
>> 
>> That works well for interactive editing, but it doesn't lend itself
>> as well to scripting and working with the contents of the text
>> cells.
> 
> Emacs scripting works perfectly well with this convention.
> 
>> I like that with vim I can see immediately whether there is
>> trailing space on a line just by jumping to the end of the line ($)
>> which will drop the cursor on the last actual character.
> 
> Emacs has an option (which I have enabled) which shows trailing white
> space throughout your entire file in bright red. And I have also
> defined a single keystroke that will get rid of it all.

And I got it wrong anyway. Both ed and vim either put the cursor between
characters (insert mode), or on the character (command mode).  Probably
made sense at the time.