Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar!cats.ucsc.edu!jik From: jik@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Super-simple UNIX editor Message-ID: <17174@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 20:36:05 GMT References: <1991Jun14.004711.25643@yenta.alb.nm.us> <1991Jun13.052839.9509@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> <1991Jun14.195428.26603@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun17.220112.7192@eci386.uucp> <1991Jun18.065340.25187@yenta.alb.nm.us> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 11 I don't want to get into a religious editor flamewar, but I find it necessary to point out that since GNU emacs is pretty much completely customizable and programmable, you can turn it into a simple editor with only basic commands accepted (and it IS possible to make it do function keys, arrow keys, etc. fairly easily), and disable the features that you don't want beginners to stumble over, and then give make that simplified version of emacs your default. The users who grow out of the simple set-up can then recustomize things to get a more powerful emacs environment. -- Jonathan Kamens jik@CATS.UCSC.EDU