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From: steve@chopin.udel.edu (Steve Singles)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,alt.sources.wanted,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Wanted: Simple text editor on Unix for non-unix types.
Keywords: editor, novice-users, wanted
Message-ID: <16343@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 00:33:43 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.032646.13509@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU>
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In article <1991Jan31.032646.13509@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU> 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...
>
>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.
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    "Simped" came through alt.sources last July.  I have never used it,
so I really don't know any more about it than what the header says (I've
appended the header below.  If you can't reach the author, I'd be willing
to mail it to you.
					Steve Singles
					steve@brahms.udel.edu
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| From: jak@sactoh0.UUCP (Jay A. Konigsberg)
| Newsgroups: alt.sources
| Subject: simped (the simple editor) version 2
| Date: 7 Jul 90 00:58:06 GMT
| Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
| 
| simped.shar.01 / part 01 of 02
| 
| This is simped (the simple editor) version 2. Most of the changes are
| bug fixes, other code cleanup and documentation updates, however, there
| are two major modifications to basic operation.
| 
| simped now accepts two command line options. 
| 
|    -a Causes simped to always come up in append mode.
|    -p compatability for postnews (see simped.doc)
| 
| With just a little bit of luck, this will be the last release.
| 
| Jay
| -------------------------------------------------------------
| Jay @ SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca.   UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0!jak
| If something is worth doing, its worth doing correctly.
| -------------------------------------------------------------