Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!leland.Stanford.EDU!fangchin From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Super-simple UNIX editor Keywords: simple UNIX text editor simped dte emacs elisp WordStar Message-ID: <1991Jun17.051541.15225@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: 17 Jun 91 05:15:41 GMT References: <1991Jun13.052839.9509@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> <1991Jun14.004711.25643@yenta.alb.nm.us> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: AIR, Stanford University, CA 94305 USA Lines: 44 In article <1991Jun14.004711.25643@yenta.alb.nm.us>, dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes: |> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes: |> |> >Could you name some messy-dos editors that would do the trick if there |> >were unix versions? |> >[...] |> >Sheesh. You can't please everybody. |> [....] I believe in messy dos, there is one from PC Mag utility pack may fit the bill as a super simple text editor, tiny editor, that is. |> |> That means that a unix novice must spend a minimum of several hours fussing |> with inscrutable manuals even to be able to compose a usenet posting or |> "hello world" program. Unix has always been for programmers. |> I wouldn't go this far, even though as a SA type, I know quite a few text editors learned using "man" (crying, crying for my past suffering). But if one is in X Window environment, there are two clients which may fit the bill (1) the standard client xedit is a good one. VERY simple indeed. (2) the contributed textedit is another. VERY easy indeed. My own opinion is that (2) is slightly better than (1) You certainly can call them up from another program, X based or not. As long as the all powerful and merciful SA has set up a environment check so that they can be called only in X. [...] |> -- |> Unix is not your mother. Yep! That's why in UNIX we use man instead woman :-) Regards, Chin Fang Mechanical Engineering Department Stanford University fangchin@leland.stanford.edu