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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Word Processor reviews wanted
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Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 19:02:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 19:02:13 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jan-84 02:32:25 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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I just got my copy of Consumer Reports and they didn't seem all that
impressed with EasyScript (the "official" Commodore word processor)
or Quick Brown Fox.  The problem with ES is apparently that it doesn't
provide "word wrap" (this is like the "wrapmargin" feature in vi, where
you just keep typing and when you go off the end of the line, it
automatically breaks the line between words.  ES apparently behaves
like vi without wrapmargin set - the long lines wrap at column 40,
not between words, and there is no line break stored.

They really come down hard on QBF.  "When you enter copy, the cursor
disappears at the second screen line.  You can't range freely through
the document and make quick chanes.  To make a change, you must first
exit the text-enter mode and go to a lne-editing mode and select the
procedure you want.  Then changes are made on a single line at a time.
If you want to scroll upward, the document's lines pop onto the screen
in reverse order, as though they had been written from the bottom to
the top.  (If you can read upside down, it might help to stand on your
head.)  Block moves are possible, but the procedure is the most
awkward we've seen.  And you can't usually move quickly to the
beginning or end of the document; you have to poke along line by line."

It sounds to me like QBF is a line editor ala ed, not a screen editor.
Of course, I can't imagine why someone would write a line editor for
the C64, especially if they call it a word processor.  Has anyone
actually used QBF that can comment on it?

Are there any really good word processors out there for the C64?
Followups to net.micro.cbm invited.

	Mark