text editing with speakup

[Luke Davis]

This is very much a matter of opinion.  To many if not most of us, unix
text editor commands (for the full screen editors, that is), make quite a
bit of sense.  Further, commands do not relate to cursor tracking and the
like.


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Charles Crawford wrote:

> Seems to me the problem is that the Linux text editors all use silly
> commands while WordPerfect has a well thought out and easy system of
> navigation and commands.
>
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
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> > Seems to me that Word Perfect for Linux, if it existed, would
> > have the same problem that all proprietary software has: i.e., it
> > uses a proprietary format that assumes the availability of Word
> > Perfect for anyone wishing to work with the document. I know you
> > can make plain text files with WP, but why bother to use WP if
> > you want to make plain text files? What are the advantages of
> > Word Perfect for Linux that would be worth the limitations of a
> > proprietary file format?
> >
> > Or am I missing something?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, jude dashiell wrote:
> >
> > > Only version of that I've ever run into came on infomagic disks and would
> > > need gnome or kde or some other form of x to run it.  It's for that reason
> > > I'd not use wp under Linux or even have it take up disk space here.
> > >
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