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- From: jmale@uranie.inria.fr (Jean-Michel Male)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.editors
- Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 16:20:03 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> <1992Sep5.221526.10841@uc.msc.edu> <Bu94Kw.4Mz@csn.org> <1992Sep8.210501.2783@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>
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- B.Scott|> > To Tom: Just what can't you do in MSWord 5.0 that you can do in emacs?
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- T.Pollard|> Are there any more hard-core emacs (or vi) users out there who can give Scott
- T.Pollard|> a more complete answer?
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- Taken as a word-processor (a program intended to write
- documentation for instance, MSWords is a big (and expensive)
- shit.
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- Just take a look to the output produced by LaTeX (or TeX), or
- even FrameMaker, and compare.
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- Taken as a word-processor (in the sense of `emacs' or `vi')
- MSWord is still a big (and expensive) shit.
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- Just use `emacs' or `vi' to do pattern matching and
- replacement, and compare.
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- Jean-Michel MALE' \\\\\
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- (Mort aux vaches !)
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