From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 27 10:39:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lanshark.lanminds.com (lanshark.lanminds.com [208.25.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49A31501A for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:39:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@lmi.net) Received: from drtboi.lanminds.com (drtboi.lmi.net [208.25.91.219]) by lanshark.lanminds.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25324; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:35:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: todd@lmi.net Organization: LMI.net From: Todd Meister To: J McKitrick Subject: RE: ok, let's get things interesting here... Cc: freebsd-chat Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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