From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 28 15: 4:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E31714C49 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:04:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17617; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:03:10 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991028154156.047263d0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:42:38 -0600 To: todd@lmi.net, J McKitrick From: Brett Glass Subject: RE: ok, let's get things interesting here... Cc: freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've considered using AbiWord, but it's GPLed. (Not trying to start a flame war here; just pointing it out.) --Brett At 10:35 AM 10/27/1999 -0700, Todd Meister wrote: > > I've been looking for a stable editor that reads/writes Word docs but i > > haven't found one i'm happy with. So far, i feel like i'm only using FBSD > > like an iMac, to surf the web. But i must add i'm learning a lot about > > the OS, and compiling the kernel is a blast (sick, aren't i?) > >What editors have you tried? I installed Abiword yesterday, and it works quite >nicely, and formats saved files much more prettily than Word. I'm not sure if >you can save files in .doc form, though. I haven't checked in particularly >ludicrous Word creations yet, but it opens simple .doc files well enough, and >can supposedly display .rtf, as well. I believe you can use vi key-bindings in >Abiword, as well, but I haven't played with it enough yet to know how well that >works. > >Here's the homepage: >http://www.abisource.com/ > >-Todd > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message