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From: ellozy@farber.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy)
Subject: Simple editor for elm
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.120934.8813@Think.COM>
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Organization: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 12:09:34 GMT
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This must be a FAQ, but I do not recollect reading answers to it.

I have a community of users who dial in to my main computer basically
to send/read electronic mail.  They are rarely computer sophisticated,
and being offsite (often out of state) makes support very difficult.

We want to run elm, with an editor a bit more capable than the
non-editor that emulates /usr/ucb/mail.  We need the capability to
move around, preferably with arrow keys, and to insert/delete/change.

We feel that vi is totally unsuitable because of the command mode/insertion
mode dichotomy.  We also have problems with emacs key bindings, which make it
unsuitable for our target audiance.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Mohamed