RDROYA01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Robert Royar) (06/27/86)
I don't own an Atari, but a friend of mine has asked me about whether he should buy an Atari-ST or some other computer for his work. He is a writer and needs to be able to produce large documents easily. He is not, and does not intend to become a programmer. My question is how much editing and formatting software is already available? He would like an EMACS like editor and a SCRIBE like formatter. The editor should support multiple windows and buffers. It should use ASCII text, and not insert any funny characters for its own purposes. I use Micro-Emacs on a micro, and we have EMACS on our VAX. He would like something similar on whatever computer he finally buys. How about ST users, is there a strong enough software base yet for him to be satisfied? RDROYA01@ULKYVX.BITNET
tech@usceast.UUCP (System Technician) (06/29/86)
>I don't own an Atari, but a friend of mine has asked me about whether he >should buy an Atari-ST or some other computer for his work. He is a writer >and needs to be able to produce large documents easily. He is not, and does >not intend to become a programmer. My question is how much editing and >formatting software is already available? He would like an EMACS like >editor and a SCRIBE like formatter. The editor should support multiple >windows and buffers. It should use ASCII text, and not insert any funny >characters for its own purposes. I use Micro-Emacs on a micro, and we have >EMACS on our VAX. He would like something similar on whatever computer he >finally buys. How about ST users, is there a strong enough software base >yet for him to be satisfied? > >RDROYA01@ULKYVX.BITNET Over here at usceast (the east coast campus of USC) we have recently made the port of both emacs-3.6 and the public domain text formatter proff to the ST-520. Those of you that might like binary's should drop mail at this address and if there is enough intrest I will post them. By the way, I have been using the Micro C-Shell for some time now and those of you with an extra dollar or two should give it a try ---- Just a satisfied customer. Micro Emacs is great -- we are porting it to the world or what little left there is. Good Luck W.R.Wood Can you say "Opinion?"