Can emacs easily do what textpad does?
When Richard Stallman showed emacs to me in 1977, I wanted some of the features. But I was later stupid enough to also want to be part of the crowd going for m$-dos and windows 3++$$. So after shelling out $4digits++ for multiple copies of multiple versions and seeing a never ending mess of patches on bugs, I tried to insulate myself by using textpad, a shareware program sort of like emacs. Now I am using Open software most of the time now and want it exclusively sometime near in the future. But I must do it so that my students and readers can/will follow me. However there are a few things textpad does which I can’t figure out how to do in emacs21. I know the smart aleck answer is use Lisp and you can do everything. But I am a professor and author doing most of my teaching & writing in third world countries like Indonesia and China where nearly all students just steal m$ and use simple minded shareware or commercial programs without paying for them. Even the ones who could program are
