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- From: wyle@synopsys.com (Mitch Wyle)
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- Subject: Emacs vs Mac MS Word 5.0 (was: good vi editor for the mac)
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.193826.20613@Synopsys.Com>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 19:38:26 GMT
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- Please let us take this thread into e-mail. Please?
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- > To Tom: Just what can't you do in MSWord 5.0 that you can do in emacs?
- >
- >Keyboard macros
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- MS-Word for the mac v5.0 has keyboard macros.
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- >Toggle words
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- You can do things like this using macros and other built-ins.
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- >Execute other program
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- I suspect (did not look this up) that you can use apple events
- to run other programs from within Word.
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- >Towers of Hanoi (OK, OK)
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- I know for sure you can do Towers of Hanoi in WinWord; I have
- not looked to see if WordBasic made it into Mac MS Word.
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- Word on the mac is as evil as emacs; it eats all resources.
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- Emacs v<19 do not have mouse-based drawing tools, built-in
- grammar checkers, table editors, etc.
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- Word does not have LISP built-in.
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- The two apps are trying to solve different problems, or at
- least their respective users should be trying to do so.
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- >Help eradicate FIDO-Net <-> Usenet gateways in our time!
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