Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing

[DPH <rally2xs@compuserve.com>]

On 05 Mar 2003 17:37:47 -0500, Robert A Duff
<bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:

>Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
>> This is wrong. I'm an heavy Emacs user and for sure I don't have a
>> good memory! Anyway completely OT ;)
>
>You don't need a good memory to use Emacs.  Your *fingers* need a good
>memory.  ;-)
>
>- Bob

Yah, whatever... <G>  Just got tired of looking up the same command
for the 13th time, or getting stuck in some state that I didn't know
how to get back to where I was and then spending 35 minutes rummaging
around thru the help and then just finally getting out of the program
and starting over, etc.  Gimmie a pull-down menu every time...  I'll
learn the key combos by seeing it there for 500 or so times...  and
then just start using it, but without any time lost having to look it
up again... and again... and again...

I was gonna build a cheat sheet of commands until someone told me
there are 100's of them.  Knowing I'd never memorize 'em all, I went
back to what I was using and uninstalled emacs.

Never did get into Wordstar for more than a day...  and that was back
when I was 15 years younger and my memory was better.

Dave Head