tommie@psivax.UUCP (Tom Levin) (06/12/85)
I hate to say this, (what with all of the good reports from others...),
but I have used the MANX compiler/editor system and I cannot recommend
the "vi-like" editor as a serious word processor. It works fine for
creating C programs, but for word processing it has the following problems:
- It has only a small subset of the vi commands, lacking the most
important ones (i.e. "undo", magic commands like ".", etc.)
- Since there is no character buffering, you always have to wait
for the screen to update before proceeding (very annoying since
it updates in a weird fashion).
- It is "buggy" (I have crashed it a number of times for no apparent
reason).
I have other complaints, but I gotta get back to work.
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|____________________________________________________________________________|dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek) (06/14/85)
Regarding the MANX vi-like editor for the Apple II, not only did the version I used lack some of the fancy visual mode commands, but it dodn't even have a global replace!! As has already been obserevd, it's bearable, but not beautiful. On the other hand, I never had it crash on me. In contrast, MANX's vi-like editor for the MacIntosh seems VERY complete. I guess they just needed some extra address space.
ahby@meccts.UUCP (Shane P. McCarron) (06/17/85)
In article <505@psivax.UUCP> tommie@psivax.UUCP (Tom Levin) writes: >I hate to say this, (what with all of the good reports from others...), >but I have used the MANX compiler/editor system and I cannot recommend >the "vi-like" editor as a serious word processor. If you are looking for a serious word processor, I would recommend Appleworks. It is reasonably fast, intuitive (unlike vi), but it is expensive. -- Shane P. McCarron Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation - Technical Services UUCP {ihnp4,harpo}!umn-cs!circadia!meccts!ahby {ihnp4,mgnetp,uwvax}!dicomed!mecc!meccts!ahby