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- From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
- Subject: Re: REALLY STUPID QUESTIONS (not so stupid)
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- References: <009653DD.EFDB4180@vms.csd.mu.edu> <NS14.92Dec18024423@crux3.crux2.cit.cornell.edu> <1992Dec18.114514.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:28:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.114514.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
-
- > I've never used Elm. But I understand that the mailer I have just
- > ported is based on it. Called Pine. It is *very* slick with a *lot*
- > of easy-to-use menu-driven functionaliy. It also comes with a very
- > easy to learn editor called PICO, which has commands reasonably similar
- > to emacs. Pine/Pico have been ported to many platforms; pending for
- > others.
-
- Yes, but PINE is too much. Damn annoying at 2400 baud, and it's trying
- to be too AP (ASCII-Pretty). Elm is functional, and non-nonsense. Great
- aliasing capabilities and such. besides, most adept users don't want a
- new editor - they want to use the one they know...
- *shrug* just a few thoughts
- steve
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