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Re: Simple UNIX editor

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From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 01:29
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>>>>> On 28 May 91 20:29:26 GMT, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) said:

Timo> In article <May.28.10.41.19.1991.17169@yoko.rutgers.edu> gaynor@yoko.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes:
>Whatever is all the fuss about?  You want a simple editor, you write a simple
>mode for GNU Emacs and disable whatever other neat shit gets in the way, at

Timo> And in order to do that one needs to know how to deal with GNU
Timo> Emacs.  Do I detect a teeny weeny vicious circle somewhere :-). 

I think they meant that the person who wanted to present the simple
editor to the students would write the mode.  So you have just the
presenter (one person) who needs the emacs knowledge, not the students.
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Subject: Re: Simple UNIX editor
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