[rescue] SMC truly blows... even on Ultra 1/170

Sun Feb 16 13:36:02 CST 2003

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:12:34AM -0800, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> Then why not run wordperfect natively - emacs zealots seem to have a
> perverse interest in emulating damn-near everything inside emacs. ;^)

The reason not to run wordperfect natively, and to instead emulate part
of it is because wordperfect isn't so great for editing source code
(especially lisp code) or hooking into a debuger, but the user doesn't
want to relearn the basic keystrokes he has known for the past 20 years.

The same goes for Wordstar, word, and vi.