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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Subject: Re: decent unix editors?
- Message-ID: <tgqmjbr.messina@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 07:08:49 GMT
- Organization: Messina Software
- References: <1992Jul30.191243.21826@ncsu.edu> <1992Jul30.224650.10106@convex.com>
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- Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
-
- >From the keyboard of bkjacobs@eos.ncsu.edu:
- >>I'm looking for a decent text editor for UNIX. EMACS is
-
- >Make an editor so simple a child can use it, and only
- >children shall.
-
- "I've spent 20 years learning how to you use it, now you're gonna spend
- 20 years just as well. If it was good for me, it's gonna be good for you."
-
- Yes, siree. You must be pissed as hell that things are getting easier
- to use on the computers. Man, just the idea of going away from the
- punch cards, what kind of idiot came up with that...
-
- To the original poster - yes, there are simple editors for end users, well
- suited for tasks such as email and occassional small file editing.
- But we don't want to piss off gentlemen who consider end users
- children (they didn't spend 20 years learning how to use something),
- so please email me on this and we'll chat.
-
- t.
-