Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!rzh
From: rzh@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Roger Hanscom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is WordPerfect 5.0 any good?
Keywords: W***, EMACS, Can you say portable?
Message-ID: <2253@lll-lcc.llnl.gov>
Date: 26 Jan 89 19:42:10 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, LCC, Livermore Ca
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In <14622@srcsip.UUCP> rogers@orion.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers) asks:

> I have a qustion for Word processing fans.
>what can W*** do that makes it better than EMACS ??
>	   ^^^  substitute favorite  W.P.   ^^^^^  any version.

> I would welcome answers from anyone who knows Emacs and W***.

I don't know W*** very well (:^?), but I have used all kinds of W***'s
and EMACS (all versions).  I depend on EMACS.  Not that it's such a
great editor, but it is one of the few that I can run on SUN, PRIME,
PYRAMID, ...etc.  Most W***'s are easier/nicer/more full-featured,
but unfortunately constrained to one particular environment.  That's
no good.  Switching between editors was killing me ("now let's see....
this is ------, so to page down I do ------").  Now with uEMACS, I
can even deal with the same command (sub-)set on my PC!!!

            Roger    rzh@lll-lcc.llnl.gov