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From: scfisher@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steven Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Which editors on Silicon Graphics?
Message-ID: <4206@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 6 Nov 90 11:34:03 GMT
References: <bjl.657536888@freyr> <879@ki.UUCP>
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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In article <879@ki.UUCP> dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes:
!>In article <bjl.657536888@freyr> BJ_Lippolt@pttrnl.nl writes:
!>>Hi,
!>>
!>>I'm looking for a simple and user-friendly editor for a Silicon Graphics
!>>Personal Iris system. This will be used be a rather inexperienced user (he
!>>has some experience on PCs, e.g. with WordPerfect).
!>>Vi and Emacs with their cryptic commands are out of the question. 
!>> ... STUF DELETED ....
!>
!>Try 'jot'.  It comes with the system.  It could use a lot of work to be
!>really usefull, but for a novice, it's really great.  I purchased an
!>editor called 'AME'.  It did some real nice stuff, but unfortunately, I
!>could type faster than it could catch characters and it would miss them.
!>Got to be too much of a pain with all the lost characters so I gave up on
!>it. 

Newer versions of AME are far better about not dropping characters - my old
version of it dropped quite a few, but I can't think of the last time that
i lost any characters with my current version. I definately think its worth
the money ($500.00).

-steve