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From: cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Simple editor for elm
Keywords: elm editor easy
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.001819.385@cjbsys.bdb.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 00:18:19 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.120934.8813@Think.COM>
Organization: BDB Systems
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In article <1991Jun24.120934.8813@Think.COM> ellozy@farber.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy) writes:
>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

There has been a lot of talk lately about editors for elm and I thought I'd
throw in my $.03(inflation). We got gnome after some discussion on this forum
and are very pleased with it.  I got it from uunet and have it running under
XENIX and ULTRIX and use it a lot.  Our "unsophisticated" users like it because
all they really need to make it work is to remember ^Z to save the file and use
the arrow keys. (It obviously does a lot more and has built-in help but thats
all they need to know to use it.

Cliff