Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 13:30 US/Eastern, Thomas Bushnell, BSG > wrote: > > > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
