Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Simple text editor for unix
Message-ID: <15508@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 19 Mar 91 01:46:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.180553.1806@wlbr.imsd.contel.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
Lines: 15

In article <1991Mar18.180553.1806@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> amc@wlv.imsd.contel.com (Allen M. Cohen) writes:
>Can somebody tell me whare I can get a simple TEXT editor for Unix?
>We need it for non-programers who need to edit configuration files,
>etc.  EMACS and VI are too rich for this purpose.

The text editor that many of us prefer, Rob Pike's "sam", is easy for
nontechnical people to use, since it supports mouse-driven cut and paste,
but it also has some powerful features for those who can exploit them.
You can obtain "sam" for a nominal licensing and transmittal fee via
AT&T's UNIX System ToolChest, which can be accessed by dialing
(201)522-6900 at 1200 baud and logging in as "guest".  Your users will
need a Sun workstation, AT&T 5620 DMD, AT&T 630 MTG, or an X11 terminal,
since that's all the special terminal support currently available for
"sam" (once you have the ToolChest version, contact me for BRL's merged
version that supports all those terminals and includes bug fixes etc.).