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From: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert A. Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Wanted: Easy, Full-screen Editor for UNIX
Message-ID: <683@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 90 13:22:13 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.153022.13721@news.iastate.edu> <1846@calmasd.Prime.COM>
Reply-To: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne)
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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In article <1846@calmasd.Prime.COM> gdh@calmasd.Prime.COM (Gerald Hall) writes:
#bwebster@iastate.edu (Webster Brian D) writes:
#>[need simple, full screen editor,  vi & emacs too big, difficult, noisy...
#> That is what he meant by 'too many bells-and-whistles', isn't it?]
#
#Reconsider vi for this.  Just don't try to teach them everything
#all at once.
Or get the sources for Elvis and remove all the commands/features
you don't want.
(The sources are really clean,  I added a few features (tag stack,
 keyword searching, set tags=) in about an hour, it would be simple
 to ifdef out anything that was unwanted)

#[...] as the users become more sophisticated [...]
Just give them the real thing!  Or remove less features...

Rob.
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