using Less commands

[Alex Snow]

emacs is good for wordprocessing and there are a few console 
spreadsheet apps. what I'm waiting for is gnome to become fully 
accessible so we have stable access to openoffice.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 
at 09:22:40AM -0500, Ed Thurston wrote:
> Hello Janina,
> 
> Thank you for  replying to my querry concerning means of reading  long
> files.  However, I probably asked the wrong question.  Now that the Linux
> operating system is working  so well, when are user friendly  application
> programs going to be available?  In particular a good word processing
> program and a more user friendly spreadsheet program.  
> 
> Linux is making  significant inroads into third world and other countries
> and  with such open source or freeware application programs becoming
> available would  dramatically speed up the spread of the operating  system.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Ed,
> 
> 
> At 09:06 AM 1/27/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >Or vim, which also supports all kinds of good things like bookmarks.
> >
> >Steve Holmes writes:
> >> From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> >> 
> >> It sounds like you might benefit from using emacs.  Yes, it is a
> >> powerful and that often means complex, editor but you can bookmark
> >> your positions in multiple places and save them from one session to
> >> the next.  Its a bit much to try and explain here but if you get into
> >> the info pages for emacs and look at the section on registers, you
> >> will find it.  It works on read-only situations like info pages as
> >> well as files being edited.
> >> 
> >> I know nothing about joe editor.
> >> 
> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:59:45PM -0500, Ed Thurston wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > Hello Steve,
> >> > 
> >> > you were  right on the money!  It worked  fine that way and
> unfortunately I
> >> > learned by  trying it out that the  mark is not saved after the  computer
> >> > reboots, so will probably just use an editor like Joe to  read long files
> >> > and  just insert  symbols in the text at the point where I  would
> want to
> >> > resume reading at a later date.  I could use the find  command to find
> the
> >> > symbol. 
> >> > 
> >> > Many thanks for  your assistance with this  problem.  
> >> > 
> >> > Do you know if there is any way to  get Joe to read more than a page at a
> >> > time.  This would  greatly speed up reading long documents.
> >> 
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