Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!yorkohm!nigelm From: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Simple UNIX editor Message-ID: <1991May29.164828.6077@ohm.york.ac.uk> Date: 29 May 91 16:48:28 GMT References: <1991May28.091304.3332@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> <1991May28.202926.12698@uwasa.fi> <1991May29.012942.28869@cbfsb.att.com> Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK Lines: 31 In <1991May29.012942.28869@cbfsb.att.com> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: >>>>>> 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. I end up with the problem, however, that gnu emacs is a >1MB image, and does not do a great deal for the system's performance (well actually it does - a dozen invocations of emacs slogs the performance drastically). Thats why we only make Micro-EMACS available for student use. Emacs is fine as long as you a prepared to pay the price for having a complete operating system written in lisp within your editor! Nigel. -- # Nigel Metheringham # (NeXT) EMail: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk # # System Administrator ####### Phone: +44 904 432374 # # Department of Electronics # Fax: +44 904 432335 # # University of York, Heslington, York, UK, YO1 5DD #