Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!vacs.uwp.edu!datta From: datta@vacs.uwp.edu (David Datta) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Simple UNIX editor Message-ID: <12613@uwm.edu> Date: 30 May 91 04:09:32 GMT References: <1991May28.091304.3332@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> <1991May28.202926.12698@uwasa.fi> <1991May29.012942.28869@cbfsb.att.com> <1991May29.164828.6077@ohm.york.ac.uk> <1991May30.024532.2228@cbfsb.att.com> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: datta@vacs.uwp.edu (David Datta) Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside Lines: 22 In article <1991May30.024532.2228@cbfsb.att.com> Dan_Jacobson@ihlpz.ATT.COM writes: > nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) said: >Nigel> a dozen invocations of emacs slogs the performance >Nigel> drastically). Thats why we only make Micro-EMACS available for >Nigel> student use. >Not to laugh at equipment/$ restraints, but I always considered it a >violation on the Geneva Convention on Minimal Treatment of Students >(;-)) to deny them GNU Emacs. It may also result in permanent >impairment. Well then, I guess we are mistreating our students here! I installed Emacs and ran it for 1 day, after some playing with multiple copies running and watching the system load skyrocket with each additional copy, we decided to just leave well enough alone and run vi. We are now in the situation where we have _complete_ computer novices starting to use e-mail, we really need a SMALL simple editor. Running module X over Emacs is NOT an option here. -- -Dave datta@vacs.uwp.edu.