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

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 7/12/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Jonathan King wrote:
> >
> > 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.

Well, it's a hack. :-)

> > 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.

Massachusetts really seems to be threatening to do this. I think
you're looking at something that is becoming more and more likely on
an organization-wide basis, but it will take 5 years.

> 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!

You would if you really needed bug-for-bug compatibility with some
Word "features".

> 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:

Never used WordPerfect in my life, and for sure now is not the time to
start. :-)

jking

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