Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!atc!hawkmoon!det From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Super-simple UNIX editor Keywords: simple UNIX text editor simped dte emacs elisp WordStar Message-ID: <1991Jun13.052839.9509@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> Date: 13 Jun 91 05:28:39 GMT References: Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA Lines: 33 jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark) writes: > I'm looking for a text editor that runs under UNIX and is so simple > that the MS-DOS community could use it. It doesn't have to do > complicated stuff. > I have users who would like to use the mailers and newsreaders on my > system but who don't want to have to learn vi or emacs to do so. I'm confused. What kind of editor are you talking about? Could you name some messy-dos editors that would do the trick if there were unix versions? I haven't found any editor, dos, unix, what have you, that was so intuitive that anybody (like a secretary; and no flames please!) could start using from minute one productively and was intuitive and simple. They *all* seem to require some learning. It seems that you may be looking for the grail-of-editing. One of my managers (and i'm a system admin type) once told me that she thought that typing "mail fred" was far too complicated and that she wanted to type F1 or something and have it somehow "know" that she wanted to send mail to fred. I asked her if she wanted it to compose the letter as well. She thought about it for a minute, but by then I had already left the area. I was afraid of the answer. I have had the same kind of expectations of people w.r.t editors. Sheesh. You can't please everybody. derek -- Derek "Tigger" Terveer det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG -- U of MN Women's Lax I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need your advice. -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots