Talk:Bravo (editor)

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A page for Bravo (program), for which I do have manuals, will have to wait for another day, alas. Noel (talk) 17:10, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Have you considered scanning and putting your Bravo manual online? That's exciting, I would personally like to know much, much more about the actual capabilities of Bravo. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 21:57, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well, I probably could. (Not right away, mind, I'm way backed up!) Also, it's rather sizeable, IIRC, and I'd have to find a place to put them. I'm a bit surprised that Xerox PARC doesn't have it online in some history section, actually. Maybe I can work with them to get it online. I have gotten (obviously) a stub online, but it needs a lot more. Noel (talk) 00:41, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I got out my copy of the Bravo manual, and it's 30 pages of the larger Alto User's Handbook, which is a real book (and this a bit of a drag to cram into the scanner). Alas, that contains a 1979 copyright notice, so I may not be able to put it online. I'll try to put the important stuff in the article. Noel (talk) 02:28, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

BravoX
Anybody want to mention BravoX, the successor to Bravo and immediate predecessor to MS Word? BravoX differed from Bravo in two important ways: it was modeless and (almost) WYSIWYG. I don't know whether any documentation survives. Rlw 17:30, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

EDIT command
the EDIT command anecdote is presented as something "real" when it's clearly a joke. It may have been frustrating to use such terse command languate that you could so easily delete your entire document (by typing E followed by D), but you would not at all be in the habit or even have the urge to issue the command EDIT. You don't even type the word EDIT to any other editors. Bravo ran on the Alto which was GUI, and you weren't even going to type EDIT on the command line to launch it. It's just humor that typing the word EDIT would replace your text with the letter T. But ED had already deleted it all. Just weird to have a joke get it's own section as if it were serious. 2603:8001:D3F0:87E0:0:0:0:10D0 (talk) 21:14, 13 February 2023 (UTC)