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From: marco@andromeda.UUCP (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse
Subject: Re: Student-friendly editor query
Message-ID: <121@andromeda.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 17:31:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 17:31:56 1986
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In article <184@moncol.UUCP>, john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes:
> 
> What editor do you use/recommend for use by students? Are there editors for
> UNIX which are "friendlier", particularly to novices?
> Replies by mail would be appreciated. I will summarize to the net if there
> is interest.
> 
      I tried to e-mail; for some reason the mailer kept returning the message.
> 
      I think vi is a very friendly editor, but we use emacs a lot
here. emacs has the advantage of being the same on many systems,
as well as neat windowing and macros.

                                                    W.rat