Leo Papandreou <l...@talcom.net> wrote: >On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 07:31:57PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: >> And, as far as *word processors* go, troff, nroff, and ed pretty >> much suck. ... >Thats absolutely correct. They have no built-in diversion to cope >with writer's block. With MS-Word you can futz with fonts for hours :-)
This may be true of ed, but (based on a URL that was posted a few days ago), vi provides a range of diversions. I've seen references to people writing Towers of Hanoi in troff, but I don't have a pointer to the actual code. Of course, it doesn't come close to emacs' capabilities - check out 'info emacs Amusements' :-). When running under X, you can play with the fonts and colours as well. Emacs has also had the ability to embed viruses in documents for far longer than M$-Word has been around - but the defaults are somewhat more sensible and there don't seem to be as many virii floating around. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
