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From: doubt@wahoo.rice.edu (Douglas Benjamin Triggs)
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
Message-ID: <1991May3.133147.5422@rice.edu>
Keywords: WP, word processing, MEmacs, GNU
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Date: Fri, 3 May 91 13:31:47 GMT

In article <1541@ewu.UUCP>, mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce) writes:
|> In article <yc6Gxqm_1@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:

|> Personally, for programming, I use MicroEmacs, the text editor that is 
|> included with the Amiga operating system, it suits my needs just fine.

Yeah, it's funny.  After a semester of heavy programming on Suns and such,
when I resumed using the amiga on a regular basis, I found that I could
no longer stand using LSE (lattice screen editor).  GNUEmacs was so well
programmed into my system that I ended up using MEmacs within a day...

'Course, I found out you could use CTRL-K in WordPerfect to delete lines --
it was so reflexive that I didn't notice I was doing it until I had been
doing it for some time...  (^:

doubt

(I think I'd have to rate WP as my favorite amiga word processor just because
of that one little thing...  (^:)

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