Re: Simple UNIX editor

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From: David Datta
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 04:09

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In article <1991May30.024532.2228@cbfsb.att.com> Dan_Jacobson@ihlpz.ATT.COM writes:
> nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) said:
>Nigel> a dozen invocations of emacs slogs the performance
>Nigel> drastically).  Thats why we only make Micro-EMACS available for
>Nigel> student use.

>Not to laugh at equipment/$ restraints, but I always considered it a
>violation on the Geneva Convention on Minimal Treatment of Students
>(;-)) to deny them GNU Emacs.  It may also result in permanent
>impairment.

Well then, I guess we are mistreating our students here! I installed
Emacs and ran it for 1 day, after some playing with multiple copies
running and watching the system load skyrocket with each additional
copy, we decided to just leave well enough alone and run vi.

We are now in the situation where we have _complete_ computer novices
starting to use e-mail, we really need a SMALL simple editor.
Running module X over Emacs is NOT an option here.

--
-Dave datta@vacs.uwp.edu.

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