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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: looking for *simple* unix editor
Message-ID: <8052@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 27 May 91 19:36:20 GMT
References: <1991May24.162654.2462@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1991May25.100139.6060@uwasa.fi>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I don't want to discourage you, nor sound unconstructive, but from a
>a bitter exprience I can assure you that a simple Unix editor (or a
>simple Unix anything) is a contradiction in terms.

By "*A* bitter experience" do you mean to say that you've had experience
with *one particular* editor advertised as a "simple UNIX editor" and
concluded from that experience that *no* editor advertised as a "simple
UNIX editor" can possibly be such an editor?

If so, then you need to indicate what that editor was, and what about it
led you to that conclusion, so that we know whether your experience
really *can* be the basis of such a conclusion or not.

>(I use MicroEmacs myself.  What a drag). 

How so?