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From: tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Hey Syd, here's a couple of ideas!
Message-ID: <556@fallst.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 91 12:20:56 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.044510.781@osh3.OSHA.GOV> <1991Jun20.141539.16160@DSI.COM> <1991Jun21.124644.17668@compu.com>
Organization: Tim Evans, Fallston, MD
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In <1991Jun21.124644.17668@compu.com> fred@compu.com (Fred Rump) writes:

>syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:

>        >>chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki) writes:

>>>Finally, a nice touch is their editor.  I've seen lots of callsfor a
>>>simple editor, but no great responses.
>>I would love a 'simple' editor to distribute with Elm as a contributed
>>product.  I am even threatened myself to 'write one' but I don't really
>>have the time if I am to get 2.4 out.  I also view this as a major
>>shortcoming.


>        I simply don't understand why this request keeps coming up for an 
>        editor. Doesn't the world out there have a word processor out 
>        there that can simply be used in text mode?
>        

I tell my users they can use their standard word processor--WordPerfect--
and show them how to do it.  Trouble is, they get right tired of sitting
waiting for WP, with all its features, to load, just to write a one-
line mail message.

MicroEmacs or Mg2a, or other similar programmable editor, seems to me
to be the way to go.  Just re-bind the basic editing functions so they
*look* like your favorite word processor.
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