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#National Boycott

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    08-Apr-86 13:18:53
Fm: John Foust 72237,135
To: Donald Weed 75126,705

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I agree. Did you know AmigaWorld prefers to accept articles in Textcraft format? I haven't seen Charlie Heath's TxED, or Metadigms editor, but I've used the public domain MicroEmacs, the Aztec 'z' editor, (a 'vi' clone), and ED, of course. I did beta-testing for Micro-Systems Software Scribble! word processor, and I didn't like it. It had some user-hostile features, but then again, it wasn't a production version. As I wrote my beta-review, I realized I was mentally comparing it to Textcraft… Scribble! doesn't use icons to change modes, only pull-down menus, and is heavily based on dot commands for formatting text. It does allow multi-window file editing. I just wish I had an editor that could learn about my idea of 'paragraph', and be able to load a file, regardless of CR, LF, or CR/LF pairs, and format it correctly as it read it in, and then spit it back out in the same or any format. You see, I write on IBM, Amiga, and a Model 100 portable. Three different line terminators, and (n x m) conversion filters…