On 04/01/2018 04:29 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote:
It's rather difficult to believe that you've no experience with
something such as MS Word or OpenOffice or gedit, even if you prefer
to use emacs and joe for everything not done in LyX. (I do a large
share of my editting with vim; but I have multiple editors
installed, each having its peculiar virtues.) But, as I said, the
problem was described in general form.
Daniel,
I've never used Word and use LibreOffice only when I need to read
or send
a processed word document to a client or regulator. Most of what I
write is
sent as a PDF attachment to an e-mail message. I also use grep, sed,
and awk
for manipulating text files.
Then again, I've used only linux to run my business, and for
personal use,
for the past 21 years.
Many different GUI editors are available for Unix-like operating
systems. (I mentioned gedit.) Presumably you were using some OS other
than Linux 22 years ago, whether for your business or for some other
purpose. If you're using LibreOffice for anything then emacs and joe
are not the only editors that you use.
But, even if the problem were somehow conceptually utterly foreign to
you, you shouldn't have conflated the any two of the three cases that
I explicitly distinguished each from the other.
