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From: tkevans@oss670.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: wordperfect as editor
Keywords: editor
Message-ID: <524@oss670.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 90 16:31:27 GMT
References: <288@fdls.odag.or.gov>
Organization: Social Security Admin., Baltimore/Washington
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In <288@fdls.odag.or.gov> jeff@fdls.odag.or.gov (Jeff Hyatt) writes:

>Has anyone used WordPerfect as an editor for elm?  If so, would you let me
>know about your successes and/or failures.  I would like users to be able to
>draft e-mail with a minimum of fuss.

One of the great things about 'elm' is that you can use any editor you
have on your system to compose messages.  The trade-off is the speed with
which it loads, works, etc.  I tried using my full-featured word processor
(Crystal Writer) on my '286 UNIX box, but found that the time to load 
the damned thing was so long that I hated waiting for it, just to do a
two or three line message.  Of course, other editors/word processors
on other systems would probably load faster.  An even better idea would
be a stripped down 'emacs' (or other programmable editor) which you
configure to run like your favorite word processor.
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