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From: donr@shark.TEK.COM (Don Riss)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Looking for a Simple Text Editor
Message-ID: <2557@shark.TEK.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 88 15:58:15 GMT
References: <4912@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: donr@shark.TEK.COM (Don Riss)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR
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In article <4912@fluke.COM> pwl@tc.fluke.COM (Paul Lutt) writes:
>I have been asked by one of our users to try to obtain a "simple to
>learn and use" visual text editor.  He considers vi and emacs to be
>much too complicated for the casual user.  He also considers the PC-
>based WordPerfect to be too complicated.
>
Has anyone written or considered writing a UCSD-Pascal-like editor for
VAX or SUN or whatever?  The UCSD editor will do a lot of things, some
of them the hard way, but its main advantage seems to be that moderately 
intelligent seventh-graders can (and have) learned it quite easily.

An aside - I've got to fix my .cshrc - it threw me into (yuk-ptui) vi
to write this note.  I've just found out that J is the way you delete
a CRLF.  Now that's not intuitively obvious to the casual observer...
but may make some wierd sort of sense to the computer scientist who
believes that control-J = LF (sometimes)

DISCALIMER::NOBODY, BUT NOBODY WANTS THESE IDEAS BUT ME, & I'M NOT SURE
            ABOUT ME.