Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 21:17, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 11/23/07 23:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> Dont' forget its best feature (the one that has never been used anywhere >>> else, but should be)... >>> >>> Drum roll, please..

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:17:29PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I'll take your word for that and accept it as given. I think I only > used WordStar once, or twice, so it could well have had the feature > without my knowledge of it. I still use a partial WordStar clone (jstar) as my text editor

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/23/07 23:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] Dont' forget its best feature (the one that has never been used anywhere else, but should be)... Drum roll, please... View Codes Balderdash. WordStar had "show codes" from

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-24 Thread David Fox
On 11/23/07, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah, good ol' WP5.0, and then the great WP5.1. M, it was so fast, > and could do spell check, underline, bold (5.1 even had italics), > and vast mail merges! It just automatically returned, without having > to manually initiate the car

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-24 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/24/2007 12:40 AM, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Ah, good ol' WP5.0, and then the great WP5.1. M, it was so fast, > and could do spell check, underline, bold (5.1 even had italics), > and vast mail merges! It just automatically returned, without having > to manually initiate the carriage retu

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 07:24:52AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/23/07 23:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: > [snip] > > Dont' forget its best feature (the one that has never been used anywhere > > else, but should be)... > > > > Drum roll, please... > > > > View Codes > > Balderdash. WordStar had "s

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/23/07 23:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] > Dont' forget its best feature (the one that has never been used anywhere > else, but should be)... > > Drum roll, please... > > View Codes Balderdash. WordStar had "show codes" from the beginning. -

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:54:38PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Dont' forget its best feature (the one that has never been used anywhere > else, but should be)... > > Drum roll, please... > > View Codes > > I really liked the ability to see exactly what formatting codes were in the > file, an

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mark Grieveson wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:35:10 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/23/07 14:37, Jude DaShiell wrote: I don't think such can be installed on debian. Probably not on freebsd either, so I'm curious have any of the emac

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-23 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:35:10 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 11/23/07 14:37, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I don't think such can be installed on debian. Probably not on > > > freebsd either, so I'm curious have any of the emacs experts ever > > > pu

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/23/07 17:59, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 11/23/07 14:37, Jude DaShiell wrote: >>> I don't think such can be installed on debian. Probably not on freebsd >>> either, so I'm curious have any of the emacs experts eve

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-23 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/23/07 14:37, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I don't think such can be installed on debian. Probably not on freebsd > > either, so I'm curious have any of the emacs experts ever put together a > > key bindings package for emacs that can make a wordperfect user fe

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/23/07 14:37, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I don't think such can be installed on debian. Probably not on freebsd > either, so I'm curious have any of the emacs experts ever put together a > key bindings package for emacs that can make a wordperfect us

command line wordperfect

2007-11-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't think such can be installed on debian. Probably not on freebsd either, so I'm curious have any of the emacs experts ever put together a key bindings package for emacs that can make a wordperfect user feel right at home? The internet service provider runs freebsd and a couple other sub