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In article <tgqmjbr.messina@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:

> Yes, siree.  You must be pissed as hell that things are getting easier
> to use on the computers.

There's no need for remarks like that.  Tom obviously assumed the
original poster wanted an editor for some heavy duty editing.  And the
poster was concerned about unix-editors which implies that unix-users
are going to answer the question.

For small time editing of small files quickly requiring only the basic
operations of inserting and deleting chars and maybe simple cut-paste
there are many small editors.  But as everyone will notice, for bigger
jobs you will need bigger and more powerful tools.  Unfortunately if a
tool is powerful, it almost always hard to use for a novice.  This
statement applies to many other tools too than just software tools. 

Oddly enough, when you learn to use that powerful tool, you don't any
more want to use anything less powerful...

If the poster is looking for powerful tools (or at least ones that
scale up well) I think it is safe to say GNU Emacs and vi are very
good choices.  I would be glad to hear other suggestions for powerful
unix-editors.  But somehow I'm no longer interested in the "simple
editors for unix..."
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