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- From: jmale@uranie.inria.fr (Jean-Michel Male)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
- Message-ID: <29075@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 14:53:06 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> <28952@sophia.inria.fr> <pkvj7r0@fido.asd.sgi.com>
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- In article <pkvj7r0@fido.asd.sgi.com>, cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
-
- C.Silverio|> ---
- C.Silverio|> This whole discussion seems to have lost sight of the fact
- C.Silverio|> that different users have different needs for their text
- C.Silverio|> processing programs. Some people are writing books. Some
- C.Silverio|> people are writing academic papers. Some people are editing
- C.Silverio|> code. A program that's good at one of those tasks might not
- C.Silverio|> be good at the others.
-
- Yes, definitely yes.
-
- C.Silverio|> jmale@uranie.inria.fr writes: [lots of stuff deleted]
-
- I'd like to add a few comments here upon MS Word,
- (La)Tex, and emacs.
- You said that La(TeX) handled big documents with
- difficulty. I strongly disagree. I have written my
- PHD thesis with it (170 pages), with PostScript imports,
- with NO trouble at all in generating the table of
- contents, the table of figures, nor with the
- pagenumbering. I had to (slightly) modify it, and it
- took exactly ten (10) minutes to add one subsection,
- two equations (all that modifying the pagination of
- one chapter), and to have it work properly.
-
- I once got the manual of PocketForth, coming in
- MSWord 4.0 with several inputs of PostScript figures.
- I never NEVER managed to get my laserwriter print it.
- It was 60 pages long, the table of contents was not
- correct, and it was even impossible to send it to a
- postscript file in order to correct it myself.
-
- I will agree with C. Silverio that the user interface
- of MSWord is quite good, but the output is, in my
- opinion, in the best case very poor, and in the
- worst case unreliable.
-
- I know, as a daily user of emacs, what is emacs. I
- know it is not a word processor like MSWord. If you
- had read my post more carefully, you would have
- understood that I was just adressing the file
- manipulations capabilities of emacs; compared to these,
- MSWord is an expensive software with NO abilities in
- that domain. (have you ever tried to align on both
- margins say a twenty pages report in MSWord ?)
-
- C.Silverio|> None of this helps the poor guy who was looking for a good
- C.Silverio|> vi on the Mac.
-
- Yes. It is of no help. And I don't know of a `vi'
- port to Macintosh.
-
- --
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-
- Jean-Michel MALE' \\\\\
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- Email: jmale@mirsa.inria.fr
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- (Mort aux vaches !)
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