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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Dead or alive: Simple editor for XENIX
Message-ID: <13529@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 4 Apr 89 17:25:40 GMT
References: <126023@neabbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <126023@neabbs.UUCP> richard@neabbs.UUCP (RICHARD RONTELTAP) writes:
| Currently, our home made BBS (running on SCO XENIX /386 2.2.3) has an
| edlin-type editor, which, frankly, is getting on my nerves.
| 
| It would be much nicer to have a simple-to-use (and learn), full screen editor.
| There are a number of editors available like VI, Micro Emacs, Mined (MINEX)
| and many more, but: They all have way too many features for BBS usage!
| (And some, like VI, are too difficult to learn for our BBS users)

  Why don't you take MicroEMACS and just disable the features you don't
like? And change the key bindings to what you want? This is all doable
from the startup script (.emacsrc) and should take you all of two hours
to do if you comment your script.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me