Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] how *not* to install software on XP Pro?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Jonathan King wrote:

> On 7/11/06, Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > No URL handy, but I'm fairly certain that 'portable' versions of both 
> > Firefox and Thunderbird exist.  Also OpenOffice.  Many others as well 
> > probably.
>
> Jerry's URL:
>
> http://portableapps.com/
>
> has links to all of those.  But the major coup may be this one:
>
> http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/software/cygwin/

Very nice.  I thought the registry would be an impediment, but it looks 
like they've gotten around that.


> That would be how to make a portable version of cygwin.  And now for one 
> last dazzling possibility: emacs-style text editing in Word:
>
> http://rath.ca/Misc/VBacs/
>
> Dang; if this really works, Word could become almost sort of 
> semi-pleasant to use. :-)

At this point I really want to get into OpenOffice and jettison the whole 
MS Office suite.  Maybe we're not there yet and VBacs could make Word less 
painful to use for the time being, but I'm not sure that I like the idea 
of making Word less painful to use!

By the way, I'm sure I've said it before, but I put a WordPerfect keyboard 
binding file here that gives you emacs bindings (to some extent) in 
WordPerfect:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/pcdownload/WordPerfect/

I've always thought that was one of the ways that WordPerfect was better 
than Word.  The other biggie is Reveal Codes.

Mike

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