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From: joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Simple text editor on Unix for non-unix types.
Keywords: editor, novice-users, wanted
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Date: 31 Jan 91 19:14:49 GMT
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root@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Hulk Hogan) writes:

>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...

Right you are. They are not only not intuitive, they are not made professionally
IMHO. The best thing to do would be to write an editor with which they are 
comfortable with on UNIX.

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

This is the sure fire way to getting lynched. Didn't you follow the discussion
about the site which had wordstar, ISPF and vi and the users wanted to make vi
look like either wordstar or ISPF? The knee jerk response of the vi bigots is
that "Tell your users to go to he**". I don't see anybody here making any 
constructive suggestions.
Best of luck.

>/\ndy
>-- 
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>Centre for Lang. Teaching & Research, 	Phone (Australia):  (07) 365 6915
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Anil Joshi(joshi@cs.uiuc.edu)

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