[boudewijnrempt]

Reveal codes was a crutch. There was nothing great about it, no matter how much it's wrapped in a nostalgic haze now. It's basically telling people "we cannot make this wordprocessor work reliably, please code up your text yourself once things go wrong".

And yes, I've used WordPerfect from 4.0 to 7.something on Dos, Windows, various unices and Linux.

[nocman]

> Reveal codes was a crutch.

So do you think the inspector in modern browsers, or "view source" are a crutch then?

I wholeheartedly disagree with this assertion, and there is absolutely no "nostalgic haze" clouding my vision. While I do agree that sometimes pulling up "reveal codes" could have revealed formatting problems caused by a bug in Wordperfect, the difference between WP and MS Word, was that you could actually DO something quick to fix the problem, rather than in Word, where the answer was often "something is royally screwed up -- you get to start over now".