Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!moegate!soley
From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Advice sought on editors
Keywords: scrolling, line numbers
Message-ID: <241@moegate.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 04:17:15 GMT
References: <1989Apr3.102454.26429@utfyzx.uucp> <2532@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
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Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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In article <2532@puff.cs.wisc.edu> ronald@rt15.cs.wisc.edu (Ronald Peterson) writes:
>SPF provides an interesting model for a screen based
>editor.  A version for PC's is available from Command
>Technology and I beleive there are some Unix versions
>available.

On last checking I was told by CTC that they had not produced a Unix version
and had no plans to do so. Does anyone know if someone else has done it?

In todays terms SPF is a pretty lousy editor for UNIX. This doesn't stop
users from banging down my door asking for it, considering the amount of
time I spend teaching people who know SPF to use vi for simple tasks, I'd 
prefer to give them SPF and spend more time on teaching vi to people who 
want to do more than edit mail messages.
-- 
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