Re: SEUL: Stopping dreams

[Donovan Rebbechi <elflord@pegasus.rutgers.edu>]

> In part it was a general remark: an end user does not need a highly
> sophisticated editor: the more features it has the heavier it is and
> the easiest its very "richness" ends confusing the user.

You haven't used it, have you ??? no, it's not confusing at all. 

> NEDIT is qualified as a programmer's editor I don't remember if in its
> doc or in an article in the LJ.  Of course some programmer's editors

So what if it's "qualified" as a programmers editor ? What does it mean to
be "qualified" and what does a "programmers editor" mean ? 
Nedit is just a simple GUI editor. All the configurability and power is
safely hidden behind menus like "preferences" etc which the newbie doesn't
have to look at. It's one of the most user friendly editors available. The
power/ease-of-use tradeoff is much less visible on a GUI tool than a
console tool. And in the case of Nedit, I don't even see a trade-off.

Nedit is simpler than the "free" GUI editors, if for no other reasons but
that the word wrap works, the mouse support also works, and all the
basic functions are under pull-down menus.

> are easier than others.  Another problem with NEDIT is than we would
> have to ship a version statically linked against Motif.  That makes a
> heavy editor just for composing mail.  (I am composing this with Gnu
> Emacs :-).

It's not a good choice for composing mail. But email programs are another
subject all together. The standard exmh and tkrat editors are just fine. 

Also, the motif thing means that it can't go in the base.

-- Donovan