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From: gdh@calmasd.Prime.COM (Gerald Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Wanted: Easy, Full-screen Editor for UNIX
Message-ID: <1846@calmasd.Prime.COM>
Date: 8 Oct 90 16:11:04 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.153022.13721@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Calma - A Division of Prime Computers
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In article <1990Oct4.153022.13721@news.iastate.edu> bwebster@iastate.edu (Webster Brian D) writes:
>My employer needs a simple, full screen editor that will run on a VAX 8250
>running BSD 4.3-tahoe.  
>[...]
>I have both vi and emacs, but nether one of these are acceptable for this
>application.  Both are too big, have too many bells-and-whistles, and are
>too hard to learn.

Reconsider vi for this.  Just don't try to teach them everything
all at once.  My wife teaches secretaries (and our kids) a very small
subset of vi (about 12 commands) in about 10 minutes which is adequate
for them to do anything they need to do.  Just pretend that this is all
that it can do and you have your "simple" and small (compared to emacs)
editor.

And there are two significant advantages: as the users become more
sophisticated and require more advanced capabilities they already have
them available, and the editor they have learned (and become dependent on)
will be available and supported on every UNIX system they ever see.

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