Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 13:34:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Cc: gmarco@masternet.it, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <199605232034.NAA08245@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605231317.OAA24711@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at May 23, 96 02:17:55 pm
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> > For beginners, newbie and rookie (as I am) I think the best solution is > > uemacs... > > > > I'm curious, what exactly is a newbie in this context, what sort of > user group are we trying to win over? A person who does not already have training in the editor that they must use to get base level functionality out of their system. So the editor must be one with a clearly identified help command at all times, at a minimum, and, preferrably, menus that get accessed by the help command instead of just an odd "learn these control keys" table. I suspect the editor would have to be "modeless" (unlike vi or ex). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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