Xref: utzoo comp.editors:2448 alt.sources.wanted:882 news.newusers.questions:3893 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ra!it1 From: it1@ra.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai) 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: Date: 1 Feb 91 06:14:36 GMT References: <1991Jan31.032646.13509@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU> <1991Jan31.191449.21610@cs.uiuc.edu> Followup-To: comp.editors Distribution: comp Lines: 21 In <1991Jan31.191449.21610@cs.uiuc.edu> joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes: >root@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Hulk Hogan) writes: [lines deleted] >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. I suggested dte by e.mail.. I figure this subject has been beaten to death already. DTE is a wordstar clone, BTW. (and I don't want to hear any comments about wordstar not being intuitive either.. I don't care.. I swear by WordPerfect, Qedit and VI... Two of which are probably the most non-intuitive editors in the world..) >Anil Joshi(joshi@cs.uiuc.edu) -- I have lots of common sense. I just choose to ignore it.