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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Looking for a Simple Text Editor
Message-ID: <11963@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 24 Aug 88 19:14:48 GMT
References: <4912@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <4912@fluke.COM> pwl@tc.fluke.COM (Paul Lutt) writes:

| Possible solutions include an emacs profile that provides access to the
| most basic functions only.  Perhaps a WordStar mapping.  We have both
| Unipress emacs and GNUemacs available.

  If you go with MicroEMACS it will run on the PC and mainframe, too.
Your idea of a limited key mapping is a good one, which I know many
people have used with success. MicroEMACS has a restricted mode which
will prevent remapping keys, by accident or intent. I believe MicroGNU
runs on a PC, too, but I haven't seen the new version (called mg)
running yet, so that's rumor.

  Good luck with your project, and remember that stickon labels for the
keys can reduce the learning curve by a good bit. We use them because
they are cheaper than answering the phone. Casual users seem to have
zero transfer of editing commands into long term memory, so labels
replace learning.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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