Re: auto text / autocomplete

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Alan Horkan wrote:

> Bad implementations of this feature have put many people off it
> completely but it is clearly useful and I expect it will be
> implemented eventually but who knows who long that might be.

         Very strange. I've been doing it in *ix Pine for donkey's
years, with no trouble; and I'm no technoid by any means. Without
trying, I'd still give odds I could do it in PC-Pine (i.e., under
Windows), too. And surely mailers are simpler than word processors?

         Does the processors' very complexity militate against them?
If so, can the Other Good Processor do it?? (Am I allowed to name
OpenOffice on this list?) I don't use it, precisely because it has
so much baggage that AbiWord seems incomparably leaner and easier to
use, at least for my purposes. But maybe the OP would find it worth
a look.

-- 
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neo-redneck with FC1&4, YDL 4.0 -- and, alas!, XP for GPS/maps
Pine 4.63; Pan 0.14.2; Privoxy 3.0.1; Opera 8.01, Firefox 1.0.4
Bear in mind that I have little idea what I am talking about.
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