Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!whuxle!pyuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!mhuxm!mhuxl!ihnp4!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Word Processor reviews wanted Message-ID: <881@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 19:02:13 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.881 Posted: Fri Jan 27 19:02:13 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jan-84 02:32:25 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 30 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