Hello Janina, Thank you for replying to my querry concerning means of reading long files. However, I probably asked the wrong question. Now that the Linux operating system is working so well, when are user friendly application programs going to be available? In particular a good word processing program and a more user friendly spreadsheet program. Linux is making significant inroads into third world and other countries and with such open source or freeware application programs becoming available would dramatically speed up the spread of the operating system. Many thanks, Ed, At 09:06 AM 1/27/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Or vim, which also supports all kinds of good things like bookmarks. > >Steve Holmes writes: >> From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> >> >> It sounds like you might benefit from using emacs. Yes, it is a >> powerful and that often means complex, editor but you can bookmark >> your positions in multiple places and save them from one session to >> the next. Its a bit much to try and explain here but if you get into >> the info pages for emacs and look at the section on registers, you >> will find it. It works on read-only situations like info pages as >> well as files being edited. >> >> I know nothing about joe editor. >> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:59:45PM -0500, Ed Thurston wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > Hello Steve, >> > >> > you were right on the money! It worked fine that way and unfortunately I >> > learned by trying it out that the mark is not saved after the computer >> > reboots, so will probably just use an editor like Joe to read long files >> > and just insert symbols in the text at the point where I would want to >> > resume reading at a later date. I could use the find command to find the >> > symbol. >> > >> > Many thanks for your assistance with this problem. >> > >> > Do you know if there is any way to get Joe to read more than a page at a >> > time. This would greatly speed up reading long documents. >> >> -- >> HolmesGrown Solutions >> The best solutions for the best price! >> http://ld.net/?holmesgrown >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >-- > >Janina Sajka >Email: janina at rednote.net >Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 > >Director, Technology Research and Development >American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) >http://www.afb.org > >Chair, Accessibility Work Group >Free Standards Group >http://a11y.org > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
