emacs is good for wordprocessing and there are a few console spreadsheet apps. what I'm waiting for is gnome to become fully accessible so we have stable access to openoffice. On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:22:40AM -0500, Ed Thurston wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
