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From: bwilliam%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Bruce Williams)
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Subject: Re: Looking for simple screen-oriented editor
Message-ID: <1990Feb13.003748.19510@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 07:37:48 GMT
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Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <14133@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>sridhar@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (M. A. Sridhar) writes:
>
>|I'm looking for a screen-oriented editor for Unix machines.
>|This is intended for students who are
>|first-time Unix users, so ideally the editor
>|must be simple to use, with lots of on-line help. (The VMS editor KED, or

>It is not necessary to have a stripped down editor for beginning users.
>Simply don't try to teach it to them all at once.

[...deleted...]
>If you assume your users are incapable of learning, then you have a
>self-fulfilling prophesy, and you will have another dilemma when they
>need to move up to more powerful stuff.
>
>Sean
>-- 
>***  Sean Casey          sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean

   Good point!  I remember my first experience with EMACS was in a summer
course which had an unusual format.  All the students were High School
age or just graduated, and we just jumped right in to Unix, Pascal, and
every other topic under the CS sun.  We were given the simplest Emacs
and Unix commands and access to any other info we might want/need and
were "let loose"!

   'tho none of us were especially gifted students so to speak, we all
quickly caught on to many features of Emacs and Unix that some people
who have been in the CS dept. for years have yet to find out about.

-Bruce
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Bruce R. Williams           University of Utah
(bwilliam@ug.utah.edu)      Salt Lake City