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["Sindi Keesan" <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> Day Brown wrote:
>>
>> First off, most of us compose text for this screen,
>> not to be printed on paper.
>
> When I compose for the screen (eg. email), I use a text
> editor.  When I compose for paper, I use a word processor.

I use a text editor for most things, including ones I print.
>> Second, if you have gone to the bother to actually learn
>> how to type, the gui mouse system sux.
>
> Why is that?  I know how to type and I see no difference
> between the two.  Once you are on the line typing, it's
> exactly the same.  The only difference is in one case (GUI)
> you use the mouse to select options, and in the other (wp51)
> you use drop-down menus or function keys to select options.
> Perhaps some people have learned to touch-type the wp51
> function keys (all 40 of them), but not me.
There are those of us who have memorized the relevant F keys, which is why
I also use the old XT keyboard since you can reach those keys more easily.
 It is a real nuisance to me if I need to remove my hands from the letter
keys to find the top-line F keys or the mouse.  I often replace my hands
onto the wrong keys. Therefore I am looking hard for a linux wordprocessor
that needs no mouse input and the gui ones don't seem designed that way. 
The author of flwriter is unusually responsive to feature suggestions.

We are all different. I find colors really confusing and can not remember
what they mean.  Red underlines drive me crazy.  Give me a TTL monitor any
day.

>
> Why do you say that?  If you write your novel in chapters
> and save each chapter as a separate file, it works pretty
> well.
>
>> I have seen dos text mode tools that use color in a
>> systematic way.
>
> Linux, too, has text editors that use colors in a systemic
> way.  I use NEdit (on BL2) for most things (except email)
> and it shows control codes and tags in various colors
> (user definable).
>
>> This *lack of functionality* is most obvious to those of us
>> who remember the BBS qwkmail newsgroups, in which, on my screen,
>> I set my words yellow, yours are green, if you quote a third
>> person, then his are blue, and so on.
>
> I've got that right now (in Sylpheed).  My words are black,
> your words are dark green, and if you quote anybody else they
> are light green.  I could have chosen blue/green/yellow, but
> I like the shades of green.
>
>> if you could produce a quoted document on the left side of




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