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From: tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: wordperfect as editor
Keywords: editor
Message-ID: <1721@fallst.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 90 11:34:28 GMT
References: <288@fdls.odag.or.gov> <524@oss670.UUCP> <1990Sep5.105210.8865@wgc386.mv.com>
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In <1990Sep5.105210.8865@wgc386.mv.com> bill@wgc386.mv.com (William Gibbs) writes:

>In <524@oss670.UUCP> 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?

>>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.

>about how slowly WP starts up.  What Elm needs is a nice, easy to use,
>basic editor.

I'll repeat my earlier suggestion in this discussion.  Get MicroEmacs,
mg2a, or other "little" EMACS, then do basic keybindings to make it
look and act like your favorite word processor.
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