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Article #12286Emacs vs Mac MS Word 5.0 (was: good vi editor for the mac)
From: Mitch Wyle
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 19:38
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 19:38
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Please let us take this thread into e-mail. Please? > To Tom: Just what can't you do in MSWord 5.0 that you can do in emacs? > >Keyboard macros MS-Word for the mac v5.0 has keyboard macros. >Toggle words You can do things like this using macros and other built-ins. >Execute other program I suspect (did not look this up) that you can use apple events to run other programs from within Word. >Towers of Hanoi (OK, OK) 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. Word on the mac is as evil as emacs; it eats all resources. Emacs v<19 do not have mouse-based drawing tools, built-in grammar checkers, table editors, etc. Word does not have LISP built-in. The two apps are trying to solve different problems, or at least their respective users should be trying to do so. >Help eradicate FIDO-Net <-> Usenet gateways in our time!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!portal!nntp1.radiomail.net!fernwood!synopsys!news.synopsys.com!wyle From: wyle@synopsys.com (Mitch Wyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.editors Subject: Emacs vs Mac MS Word 5.0 (was: good vi editor for the mac) Keywords: n Message-ID: <1992Sep13.193826.20613@Synopsys.Com> Date: 13 Sep 92 19:38:26 GMT References: <1992Sep5.221526.10841@uc.msc.edu> <Bu94Kw.4Mz@csn.org> <D88-JWA.92Sep8123551@black.nada.kth.se> Sender: usenet@Synopsys.Com Organization: Synopsys, Inc. Lines: 33