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From: root@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Hulk Hogan)
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Subject: Wanted: Simple text editor on Unix for non-unix types.
Summary: Can anyone suggest one.
Keywords: editor, novice-users, wanted
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.032646.13509@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU>
Date: 31 Jan 91 03:26:46 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Centre for Language Teaching and Research, Uni of Queensland, AUSTRALIA.
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Just wondering if anyone knows of any [free] simple text editors for Unix
which I could give to my non-Unix users.  Ed, vi, crisp and emacs are 
not terribly intuitive...

Ideally, I'd like to give them something which wraps words at the end of
each line, uses the cursor keys on the keyboard (if they exist), runs
on large numbers of terminals (ie. doesn't assume function keys)
and maybe even has half the screen used up by help info on the commands.
Nothing terribly complex.

Anyone have/know of such a beast.  What do other sysprogs do? Give their
users a vi or emacs manual??  :)

/\ndy
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Andrew M. Jones,  Systems Programmer, 	Internet: andy@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au
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