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Hello Roy - 

CA>> My preference is still Qedit and I drop to DOS frequently
CA>> to avoid Windows editors and use Qedit macros to speed
CA>> things up. I'm used to it and can get more done in less
CA>> time that way. :-) 

RJT> I use it more than anything else on this box, too. On
RJT> linux I use mcedit, which seems to be pretty similar in
RJT> terms of capabilities, though I've had to work at keeping
RJT> the keystrokes straight when switching sometimes. :-) 

RJT> Macros are something I've done very little with. What sort
RJT> of stuff do you do with them that's useful? 

Eliminating double spaces, eliminating double blank lines,
reformatting text to a fixed line length while preserving the
FIDO "quote" markings, adding my signature, logging the message
to a log file, and then making up others for special purposes
as I go along. 

BB>> think Word can also do plain text editing, but I've never
BB>> tried it. 

CA>> When in Windows I use EditPad (notepad replacement) for
CA>> most text files. Word is overkill and seems to fight
CA>> writing plain text although it can if you force it. 

RJT> That's a good way to describe a lot of that stuff, you
RJT> have to fight with it to get it to do what you want it to
RJT> do. 

RJT> I've also been fiddling with copies of web pages here, and
RJT> had the misfortune to acquire a few that were apparently
RJT> done with word. I've decided that it's the worst possible
RJT> tool there is for web pages, at least in terms of what
RJT> I've encountered so far! :-) 

I have a DOS filter that will removed most, if not all,
non-ASCII characters and then I reformat the text. :-) 

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