Klarinet Archive - Posting 000421.txt from 1998/12

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] good posting
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 01:06:25 -0500

On 8 Dec 1998 20:01:46 -0000, charette@-----.org said:

[snip]

> If I need more sophistication I can pull up vi (or vim, or emacs, or
> whatever).

We'd need to be running unix or linux, though -- is that right?
(Perhaps we will, in the end.)

> From home I use MSft (whatever - I forget) Express, which has
> the spell checker set up to check my spelling before I send (now,
> if I just had a syntax checker attached, too, it would be a good
> thing).

They say M$ft has an ad-hominem checker in development.

But my question still stands, I think: can you use an external editor
with that stuff, or with the mac stuff, *for replying*, as opposed to
just putting extra bits in? And if so, what's a good one?

Tony
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