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- From: feuchtwa@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Feuchtwanger)
- Subject: Re: Flow
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1993Jan20.143840.28422@ms.uky.edu> <58952@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:06:16 GMT
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- jgary@ms.uky.edu (James E. Gary) writes:
- >Is anyone out there using Flow? I think it is from New Horizon's software.
- >I recently dug out my copy, which must be version 1 and have found it useful
- >lately. I have noticed that newer versions are available and am wondering
- >whether it is worth my effort to upgrade (assuming they will let me and
-
- barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
- > If you like Flow, I recommend upgrading, since version 3 adds many
- >features and has the same design philosophy.
-
- I agree. I use Flow quite a lot -- mostly for writing. I start with
- key words, phrases and main ideas, and continue by fleshing it out,
- and re-arranging. If i want to format everything nicely, i switch to
- ProWrite, which can read Flow documents.
-
- One of the best, though admittedly not earth-shattering, improvements
- in the newer version (3.0?) is splitting lines with SHIFT-RETURN and
- joining lines with SHIFT-DEL/BCKSPC. I would still like better
- integration with ProWrite/QuickWrite, though.
-
- I suspect, judging from the lack of discussion/articles, that not too
- many people use Flow, which is a pity because i find it so useful.
- Though i've never done any programming recently, i'm sure i'd use Flow
- for that purpose, because its so good at indenting/unindenting,
- collapsing/expanding, and re-aranging. Does anyone use it for that?
-