Tathagata Banerjee wrote: > my dear indra, > please do not go into orbit; you know we'd miss you so... > maybe i didn't express myself clearly. i am myself a great pico user, am > flirting with emacs/xemacs and trying to learn vi out of respect for the > pioneers of unix programming. but i said WORD PROCESSOR, not TEXT EDITOR. > the sort of thing you'd use for writing a book. while you certainly could > use emacs to write a novel, it would be like using a chair to hammer a nail > into the wall. it wasn't meant for this sort of thing at all. what i was > looking for is something like wordstar for (excuse me for using this > three-letter word) dos. > you savvy? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Indranil Das Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 2:39 AM > Subject: [ilug-cal] Re: > > > emacs, vi, joe, pico........ QUICK! Somebody hold me down before I get > blasted into a geo-stationary orbit!!! :D > > > > --indra > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Tathagata Banerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "ilug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:54 AM > > > > > > > folks, does anybody know whether there's a textmode word processor in > linux? > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html In that case LaTeX or TeX or any of its derivatives can be a nice choice for you; if ou want a WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX you can try out lyX.
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