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Article #7078Re: Text editing on Macs
From: Bill Petro
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 18:19
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 18:19
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alh@pyrnova (Alan Holzman) writes:
>In article <2385@eagle.wesleyan.edu> you write:
>>For now, we have some folks using Teach Text (!), some on Write, and a
>>couple of us experimenting with MEdit. Qued sounds interesting, but I'm
>>afraid that it will look too techie for a couple of our people.
>>Bob B-)=
>> --==THIS is a job for a mild-mannered reporter==--
> ... definitely consider a DA text processor for both ease of use for
> your "computer-phobic" reporters and the small size & power of a DA
> on a 2 floppy SE.
I use Vantage as well, almost exclusively. It is wonderful to jump in
and out of it while in another application, like Red Ryder (was that a
plug :-) It is a great editor, and as long as the user recognized that
it is not a word or document processor, they will be well served. The
macro capabilities are nice, but underpowered. I used to use QUED/M,
the predicessor to Nisus (a reall word processor). The macro
capabilities in QUED/M(acros) are superior to Vantage, as the program
has a "watch me" capability. You can split screens easily, etc. I
rather prefer Vantage's wrap-line feature, which places hard carriage
returns at the end (so necesssary when uploading files to a UNIX
system). And the price of Vantage is right!
Bill Petro {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven" Matthew 19:12
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