From: rick@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) Subject: Re: Packaging Linux Date: 23 Nov 1992 13:38:18 GMT
<ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> (Michael Somethingorother) writes:
> Hello all. I would just like to jump into this thread to say that I agree
>completely that we need a good word processor. Once we have this, Linux will
>be a practical system for a variety of people.
> I have a suggestion. Why don't we use doc. Doc is a WYSIWYG document
>editor. It comes as part of InterViews. I have been trying to fix some bugs
>in it for quite a while, but an older version is available at tsx-11 and
>sunsite.
Why don't we use Doc? *BECAUSE* it's part of Interviews! Not everyone will
have the ability to install X Windows on their machine(s). You've also given
another good reason... it's still buggy under Linux.
Something more simple, which would be available for use even before they've
done any configuration, is necessary... else what editor will they use to
*do* the configuration?!? Note that I say "editor". Any full-blown "word
processor" is going to require configuration of some sort. I would suggest
though that JOE 1.0.5 is a fairly decent editor that's not too baffling for
Joe D. User to figure out.
Personally, I like "vi"... but I've been using it for (ugh) over six years.
But Joe D. User downloaded Linux so that he'd have an operating system,
not so he could spend a week learning "vi" from scavenged documentation.
Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
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