Xref: utzoo rec.arts.sf-lovers:58498 rec.arts.fine:281 comp.editors:3042 comp.text:8294 rec.arts.books:21060 rec.arts.poems:11602 bit.listserv.literary:579 alt.prose:994 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!djheydt From: djheydt@garnet.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers,rec.arts.fine,comp.editors,comp.text,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.poems,bit.listserv.literary,alt.prose Subject: Re: What do writers want from a word processor? Message-ID: <1991Apr21.051427.14547@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 21 Apr 91 05:14:27 GMT References: <1991Apr17.175001.8402@sjuphil.uucp> <_FTARF9@xds13.ferranti.com> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 41 In article <_FTARF9@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Oddly enough, a lot of the features you want are in "vi"... which was used >for on-line documentation with a separate text-processing step as well as >program editing. For example, type ":abbr tt Turing Test" then insert >"can vi pass the tt?"... you'll get "can vi pass the Turing Test?". > >(vi as a word processor for professional writers. wottaconcept) >-- You betcha. Vi is what I have on my machine; vi is what I want. The "baby duck syndrome" comes into this too---vi is what I learned on. But vi *still* has everything I want except it would be nice if I could have windows and have two texts simultaneously visible so I could read from and write into one from the other more easily. Maybe someday Suns will get real cheap and I can get one. At work, however, I have to use Word on a Macintosh. Yuchh. *I HATE MICE* Does anybody know about a program I've heard of called Easy Access-- designed, so I'm told, for people with mobility problems in their hands--which completely eliminates the use of the Mouse on the Macintosh? All the Mac-related groups, stores, etc. I've called to inquire about the subject have been profoundly unable to believe (a) that such a package exists; (b) that anybody could possibly *want* not to use a mouse. None so blind as those that will not see . . . . Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin Dorothy J. Heydt Province of the Mists djheydt@garnet.berkeley.edu Principality of the Mists University of California, Kingdom of the West Berkeley (EH&S doesn't care what I post, and anyway this is MY account.)