Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!cbfsb!danj1 From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Simple UNIX editor Message-ID: <1991May29.012942.28869@cbfsb.att.com> Date: 29 May 91 01:29:42 GMT References: <1991May28.091304.3332@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> <1991May28.202926.12698@uwasa.fi> Sender: news@cbfsb.att.com Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ihlpz.ATT.COM Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: ts@uwasa.fi's message of 28 May 91 20: 29:26 GMT Originator: danj1@cbnewsf.cb.att.com >>>>> On 28 May 91 20:29:26 GMT, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) said: Timo> In article gaynor@yoko.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes: >Whatever is all the fuss about? You want a simple editor, you write a simple >mode for GNU Emacs and disable whatever other neat shit gets in the way, at Timo> And in order to do that one needs to know how to deal with GNU Timo> Emacs. Do I detect a teeny weeny vicious circle somewhere :-). I think they meant that the person who wanted to present the simple editor to the students would write the mode. So you have just the presenter (one person) who needs the emacs knowledge, not the students.