From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: iking@killthewabbit.org (Ian King) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 11:51:12 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun) In-Reply-To: <20140802164748.6D3BD18C0B2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20140802164748.6D3BD18C0B2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Aug 2, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > Does something like Word produce the same reaction for you? I don't > use it > much, but my wife does (she's an engineer, and uses it to write > papers), and > its complexity drives her crazy sometimes. > After writing my general exam in MS-Word, I swore off it unless forced to use it (i.e. collaborative requirements). When a stupid but ambitious application program thinks it's smarter than you are and tries to 'correct' your writing (I now call it 'autocorrupt'), it's time to change. These days I write in EMACS and format with LaTeX, printing in PDF. I can't imagine writing my dissertation with the turd called Word. Unfortunately, I have to keep MS-Worst on the family computer, because the public schools require parents to purchase for-profit software to support our children's education. (There are too many incompatibilities with Open Office et al. that trip up my less- computer-savvy family members for the open-source tools to be a useful alternative in an compulsory MS world.) Fortunately, I get it for free through *my* school. For programming, I used to use exclusively vi, but tried EMACS out of curiosity and found its UI to be a less constrained than vi's modal approach. I use Gnu, FWIW. -- Ian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: