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Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Rand editor
Article-I.D.: stolaf.885
Posted: Fri Apr 15 01:02:45 1983
Received: Sun Apr 17 07:23:16 1983


	"Of course, what you are looking for is an electronic emulator
	for a typewriter, with its tabulating properties.  I agree that
	this could be useful, but it is not the standard usage of the
	HT character."
						--Mark Terribile

Bingo.  This typewriter-like-ness of the Rand editor makes it extremely
popular with Humanities people--that is to say, users (remember them?).
By and large, they don't care that the HT character isn't being used
in a standard fashion; they want to know why the hell they can't put
eight characters in that eight-space margin without some special command.
We have people here clamoring for a UNIX complement to the micro-based
Rand lookalike we give them.

Not to say that I *like* the thing, y'understand; I can't stand using
it, and don't like the tab/space waste, either, but there *is* a place
for it amongst the non-programmers in Academia.

			Trying to speak from the middle of road,

						Steve Knight
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