Re: #3 in Guardian Tech today, bare metal editors over Microsoft Word

[Myron Gochnauer goch@xxxxxxxx]

Quote:

       XyWrite
 had muscles, to be sure, but you had to know where to

     look
 for them. Perhaps the most unfriendly piece of software

     ever
 written, XyWrite demanded that its users learn thousands of

     commands
 and execute them perfectly.





Interesting.  I started using XyWrite with version 2+, and don’t recall it being particularly unfriendly. But, of course, I actually read the printed documentation from start to finish. The reveal-codes view made it easy to find and correct formatting
 problems, something that became increasing difficult with many other programs.