Xref: utzoo rec.arts.sf-lovers:58519 rec.arts.fine:282 comp.editors:3048 comp.text:8295 rec.arts.books:21071 rec.arts.poems:11614 bit.listserv.literary:581 alt.prose:995 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!world!eff!mnemonic From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) 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: <1991Apr21.094715.7927@eff.org> Date: 21 Apr 91 09:47:15 GMT References: <1991Apr17.175001.8402@sjuphil.uucp> <_FTARF9@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Apr21.051427.14547@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation Lines: 51 In article <1991Apr21.051427.14547@agate.berkeley.edu> djheydt@garnet.berkeley.edu () writes: > >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. Although I don't particularly like vi, and I prefer Macintosh word processing to anything available on the PC, I should point out that all my writing on Usenet done using vi in a terminal window. The Mac features I need are all there, since they're part of the interface. Need two texts open at the same time? I either use the buffered text in my terminal window (if I need reference to what has gone before), or I cut and paste text to a DA text editor, such as Sigma Edit. >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? Easy Access is part of current Macintosh system software, and has been for quite some time. Whether it has the features you want, however, is something I can't answer. The reason the Mac groups and stores you ask haven't been able to help you is that you're inquiring about Easy Access as if it were an independent software package. There also is at least one version of emacs available for the Mac, but I haven't seen it in quite some time. >None so blind as those that will not see . . . . Perhaps. But I can manipulate text with a mouse faster than anyone can with cursor keys. --Mike -- Mike Godwin, |"Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that mnemonic@eff.org | there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more (617) 864-0665 | affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a EFF, Cambridge, MA | Parisian intellectual behind his/her turgid text?"