From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from w088.z208036108.was-dc.dsl.cnc.net ([208.36.108.88] helo=toccata.grg.afb.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15YqNx-0006qK-00 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:50:38 -0400 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.grg.afb.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f7KEncP02009 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:49:39 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.grg.afb.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:49:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: No text editing??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Chuck: Since you mention a fondness for pico, let me suggest nano to you. It's a gpl pico clone with a few added features. In particular, it supports search and replace very well. Now, if it would just support movement by word ... That's my problem with text editing on linux. There's no way, short of emacs, to move by words. I can move up and down by lines, and left and right by chars. But left and right by chars gets very tedious in a long report. So, I'm slowly learning emacs--an effort I know will eventually payoff handsomely. Meanwhile, the work just needs to get done and I suffer over the lack of word movement. PS: I also am still on the lookout for something to read the newer WordPerfect file format under linux. No luck yet in that area. -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp