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 Lines: 17 In article <6218@ig.ig.com> KRISTOFFERSON@BIONET-20.ARPA writes: >From: David Kristofferson> > > > 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