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From: tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Hey Syd, here's a couple of ideas!
Message-ID: <8245@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Jun 91 08:10:44 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.044510.781@osh3.OSHA.GOV> <1991Jun20.141539.16160@DSI.COM> <1991Jun20.192712.26853@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1991Jun20.235134.18095@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
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In <1991Jun20.235134.18095@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) writes:

>grdetil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gilles R. Detillieux) writes:

>>While I'm at it, Syd, I'll get my $.02 in for suggested changes to Elm.
>>I would really like a simple way to abort any command, like hitting Esc.

>I would second that one too.

That is a standard feature in many packages, including nn.  Spending
more time reading news (!) I keep finding myself hitting ESC in Elm
and getting beeped at ... :-)

As for a simple editor Micro Emacs would be my choice too;  it gives
you easy editing with arrow keys with default insertion and backspace
deleting for you.  All you need to know are the help and write/quit
key sequences.  Though on the face of it simple, it is quite powerful
and you can progress to full GNU Emacs after a while ...

Tim
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