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Article #3256Looking for a Simple Text Editor
From: Paul Lutt
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1988 20:30
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1988 20:30
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I have been asked by one of our users to try to obtain a "simple to
learn and use" visual text editor. He considers vi and emacs to be
much too complicated for the casual user. He also considers the PC-
based WordPerfect to be too complicated.
If this particular user had a Sun workstation, I would suggest
something like Sun's textedit tool. However, the user is stuck with a
VT100 style terminal.
Possible solutions include an emacs profile that provides access to the
most basic functions only. Perhaps a WordStar mapping. We have both
Unipress emacs and GNUemacs available.
If you have had the same sort of request and have found a reasonable
solution, I would sure like to hear about it.
As background, the target systems would be Vax 11/780s running Mt. Xinu
MORE/bsd and Sun workstations running SunOS 3.5.2 and SunOS 4.0.
Please mail any replies to me direct and I will pass them along. Thank
you.
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Paul Lutt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!pwl From: pwl@tc.fluke.COM (Paul Lutt) Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs,comp.unix.questions Subject: Looking for a Simple Text Editor Message-ID: <4912@fluke.COM> Date: 23 Aug 88 20:30:52 GMT Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 27