Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!rob
From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Simple editor for Elm
Keywords: Elm, editors
Message-ID: <6051@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 89 01:50:32 GMT
References: <1226@mitisft.Convergent.COM> <523@ariel.unm.edu>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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jon@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Jon Bork) writes:
+Does someone out there know of a simple editor that we could use with
+Elm to ease the teaching of Elm to occasional users who are not UNIX
+literate? All it needs to do is type, insert, delete. 
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

sfreed@tesla.unm.edu (Steve Freed) writes:
+Just use the builtin editor.

The builtin editor should have been called an "appender". You can type,
but you can't insert or delete.
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