From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) Subject: Re: Let's write a wordprocessor. Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 03:24:18 GMT
In article <mjr.737924340@ursa> mjr@ursa.calvin.edu (Matt Ranney) writes:
>yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) writes:
>
>>I don't think we should be worried about text based terminals. There
>>are a plentiful number of text editors for this.
>
>Yes. If they want a cool word processor, they really should get a
>better machine. I know it sucks to hear that if thats all you've got,
>but its backwards compatability issues like these that would really
>slow down a project like this. If it has to work for everyone and do
>everything, everyone isn't going to use it because it'll be too big.
I disagree. If I was doing this (and I might be... it depends on a great
many things) I would make put all of the functionality callable from
tcl. the processor itself would then be a tcl script of which there
could be two different versions: one for text and one for X-windows.
As they would be both relying on the same underlying code, it would not
be too big. Also it would give you the advantage of consistency between
the character and the graphic platforms.
jem.