Re: SEUL: SEOL Text EDITOR

[Mark Stone <markst@nanospace.com>]

Text editor discussions may be, and perhaps should be, a veritable
religious matter for programmers and UNIX gurus. But the priorities for
newbie end users are quite different. Having been such a person not long
ago, I can tell that vi and any flavor of emacs are the wrong choice.

I just fired up ae, which I haven't looked at in a while, and I think
George is right. It is about as intuitive as pico, and about as intuitive
as your are going to find in a command line interface. It has my vote.

I also still think you need to consider another editor as the default for
X, and I'm sticking by my choice of Tkedit.

Mark

On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote:
> 
> > Guys - 
> > 
> > Come on!  TEXT EDITOR discussions are a deeply religious matter.  I even
> > have a hymn for my favorite editor, EMACS.  (I'll quote it, if anyone
> > asks to hear it. :) I was a vi user, and I still use vi when I am
> > compelled to do so. 
> 
> Right, both vi and emacs are wrong choices. If someone can come up with an
> editor >30K, I will consider it.  This editor must go on the install disk
> so that you can escape to a shell and make changes.
> 
> 
> George Bonser 
> If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig)
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