Word Processing on P-E

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2 total messages Started by Brent Wed, 23 Jan 1985 15:26

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Author: Brent
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 1985 15:26

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    Let's talk text editors.  How do EMACS and the Rand Editor
stack up against good (?) ole vi?  I hear tell the Rand Editor
is public domain.  How would I go about getting a copy?  What's
the word on word processing on P-E?  I've read about Quadratron,
but I prefer something I can get source to.  What say ye gurus?
Use cat(1)?

                Brent Laminack (pesnta!itm!brent)

Re: Word Processing on P-E

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Author: David Sherman
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 1985 21:26

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P-E markets something called Lex-32 for word processing.
I don't know anything more about it, but you could talk
to your sales rep.

As for editors, I use qed everywhere (PE and any other
UNIX machine I'm using). It's a superset of good old "ed"
with multiple buffers and everything else you could ever
ask for. I got it running on our 3220 with no problem.
Yep, it's a line editor, but - at 1200 baud or slower,
a screen editor is too slow anyway, and at high speed
you can get the system to blast the current page onto
the screen in no time anyway, with about 2 keystrokes.
Doesn't put anywhere near the load on the system that
vi does, too.
-- 
{utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs}!lsuc!dave
{allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsrgv!lsuc!dave

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