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From: rock%warp@Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
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Subject: Re: Text editing on Macs
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Date: 25 Oct 89 18:19:32 GMT
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alh@pyrnova (Alan Holzman) writes:

>In article <2385@eagle.wesleyan.edu> you write:
>>For now, we have some folks using Teach Text (!), some on Write, and a 
>>couple of us experimenting with MEdit. Qued sounds interesting, but I'm
>>afraid that it will look too techie for a couple of our people.
>>Bob                                                              B-)=
>>       --==THIS is a job for a mild-mannered reporter==--

>	... definitely consider a DA text processor for both ease of use for
>	your "computer-phobic" reporters and the small size & power of a DA 
>	on a 2 floppy SE.


I use Vantage as well, almost exclusively.  It is wonderful to jump in
and out of it while in another application, like Red Ryder (was that a 
plug :-)  It is a great editor, and as long as the user recognized that
it is not a word or document processor, they will be well served.  The
macro capabilities are nice, but underpowered.  I used to use QUED/M,
the predicessor to Nisus (a reall word processor).  The macro
capabilities in QUED/M(acros) are superior to Vantage, as the program 
has a "watch me" capability.  You can split screens easily, etc.  I
rather prefer Vantage's wrap-line feature, which places hard carriage
returns at the end (so necesssary when uploading files to a UNIX
system).  And the price of Vantage is right!


     Bill Petro  {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven"  Matthew 19:12