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From: david@rolf.stat.uga.edu (David Gundlach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: An ELM-editor summary (kinda long)
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Date: 26 Nov 90 13:58:29 GMT
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Hello, net.helping.people!

At last I can summarize the great search for a bare-bones, stripped-
down ascii editor for ELM, the ELectronic Mail program (thanks for 
the correction to lyman@Inference.COM and wuxing@comp.mscs.mu.edu!).  
I got three basic answers:
	1) GNU's Emacs or Micro Emacs (or JOVE, Jonathan's Own Version 
of Emacs)
	2) A simple editor that had long ago been posted to the net
	3) A simple editor written by lyman (that he isn't proud enough 
of to publish :-)

GNU Emacs seems to be fairly universal and pretty accepted, but we 
don't have it just yet :-)  We've been waiting on those two big disks 
for a while now...

The posted editor is a simple, single-screen editor with no special 
commands available, but it's *really* simple.  I'll have to check it 
out thoroughly, but this probably won't get used.

I'm not a C programmer (I'd love to be, but the two books I tried 
were not for Sun's flavor of UNIX :-(, and then I got busy again...), 
but John Lyman tells me that the code is so easy it almost isn't 
funny.  Since they use it widely at his site, his may be the editor 
I go with until I can whip up Emacs.  Remember, though, that it's 
not an official 'release'!

There was one other editor called SimpEd that was promised to me...  
I'll try it out and post the news if it's interesting enough.


Pat "I'm not an engineer" Fitz:
WOOF  WOOF  WOOF!   I have no hope, but I will bite you anyway :-)

Ernest, Jim, Neal (It got here :-), Steen, Jim (I'm on a Sun at 
SunOS4.0.3), Dr. Debande, Aaron, Brian and Ian (as well as anyone 
else who wants copies):
I will hang on to all code I have and will forward the package of 
all responses and code to anyone who wishes.  Please send me mail.  
If you can't get to me, then post it and I'll probably see it.


I'd like to thanks everyone for all their help.  Talk about open 
systems! :-)


David Gundlach				david@rolf.stat.uga.edu
UGA Statistics				BITNET: statuga@uga
University of Georgia			404/542-3289 or 404/542-5232


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