Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!well!ricko
From: ricko@well.UUCP (Richard J Otter)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Re: Learning more about MM and E-mail on BIONET
Summary: EMCAS is good to know
Message-ID: <5923@well.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 88 06:20:19 GMT
References: <6218@ig.ig.com>
Reply-To: ricko@well.UUCP (Richard J Otter)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <6218@ig.ig.com> KRISTOFFERSON@BIONET-20.ARPA writes:
>From: David Kristofferson 
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>	EMACS is an editor that one initially hates compared to PC
>wordprocessors ...                                                    
>                      ...  However if one regularly uses it in the
>mail program like I do and learns some of the options, one soon
>discovers that EMACS is tremendously powerful.                 
>

I might add that EMACS is available on many different computers
and operating systems, from micro to main frame. Once youv'e gotten
used to EMACS, you'll be able to edit text & sequences in many differnet
computing environments.   

Richard Otter