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From: kasper@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Kasper Osterbye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARexx question
Message-ID: <5701@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 3 Oct 88 06:45:31 GMT
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Reply-To: kasper@csli.UUCP (Kasper Osterbye)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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Here is my two cents of why I found ARexx to be more than a glorified
Macro language. Some one said it was like having a remote control to
the program. That was exactly what I used it for. TxEd+ do not auto
save the text every so often, and some other program made the machine
crash, and I lost 2 hours of creative thesis writing. 

I then wrote a little ARexx program that would send TxEd+ a message every
5 minutes telling it to save. No other `macro' language allows you to
run your macros concurrently with the editor.

Btw. Last time I was at the dealer I found that `Zing-spell' has a
spelling checker. This means that all ARexx compatible editors now have
a spelling checker.

This again means that the possible market for Zing-spell is much greater
than had it been just a standalone spell-checker (hint to all developers:-)

--Kasper (who needs a spelling checker badly)

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