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From: dickw@cnps.PHILIPS.nl (Dick Wiersma)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: wordperfect as editor
Keywords: editor
Message-ID: <1310@cnps.PHILIPS.nl>
Date: 4 Sep 90 12:05:33 GMT
References: <288@fdls.odag.or.gov> <524@oss670.UUCP>
Organization: Philips C&P-LSS
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tkevans@oss670.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:

> 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.

We use elm here as the default mailer and for some people (the ones not
being familiar with vi) we have configured elm so that wp is started as the
editor (see configuration for that).
The only thing you have to notice is that:
a)  you save the file as an ASCII image (ctrl-F5), not using the normal save
    procedure,
b)  be sure your customized signature does not wrap around, because this is
    annoying.
Starting up if fairly fast (depending of course upon the performance of the
system).
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