Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Files created on IBM clones Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 14:33:05 GMT References: <1991Mar11.155026.3504@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <8210@umd5.umd.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: scott@texnext.gac.edu's message of 12 Mar 91 15:01:59 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: That is, if you know emacs. If you don't know emacs, you're not going to have much luck finding out how to M-x to get to where you can run query-replace, then escape control characters, then do all the other magic needed, stuff which is obvious to those of us who use emacs, maybe not so much to someone who's just come over from MSDOS, editting with one of the gazillion PC editors out there. Like JOVE, MicroEmacs, and Freemacs(my personal favorite). [I don't mean this as an emacs flame - just pointing out that emacs certainly isn't what one would label user-friendly :-) ] Actually, Emacs is not too hard to learn if someone explains how to use the help. I hate to see someone use an "easier" editor because he can master it in an hour. -Mike