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- From: bill@twinbrk.uucp (Bill Shotts)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Home mapping in Stevie
- Message-ID: <930105621@twinbrk.uucp>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 02:08:53 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.050137.3780@netcom.com>
- Reply-To: bill%twinbrk%media@uunet.uu.net
- Organization: Twinbrook Coherent System - Rockville, Maryland
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- Tony Porczyk (messina@netcom.com) wrote:
- :
- : Hi there,
- :
- : Please disregard my previous post about MicroEMACS. I decided it will
- : be easier to explain vi to the user after doing some magic to .exrc
- : then to teach them to perform finger acrobatics in 'me'. On top of that
- : MicroEmacs has no easy way of inserting a file at a cursor (without
- : wiping out the buffer), outside of juggling buffers, which is not good
- : for newbie users. Stevie seems very nice, really fast, and (to me)
- : much more intuitive than 'me'. Anyway, I started playing with .exrc
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- Another editor that people might look at is ice. It uses a WordStar
- like command set but also has pull-down menus, file boxes and a lot of nice
- user interface touches. A demo version is on MWCBBS called icedemo (note that
- the description of the program in the mwcbbs database is wrong. They say that
- it is a file/directory management tool but in fact it is a neat text
- editor/quasi-wordprocessor).
-
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