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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:46:35 MEZ
- Sender: IBM AIX Discussion List <AIX-L@PUCC.BITNET>
- From: Klaus Kretschel <RZ13@DLRVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: CUA-like editor for AIX?
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 20 Jan 1993 10:37:52 -0600 from <mdceng!kuncej@UUNET.UU.NET>
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- On Wed, 20 Jan 1993 10:37:52 -0600 <mdceng!kuncej@UUNET.UU.NET> said:
- >
- >I am going to have enough trouble "porting" these users without also inflicting
- >vi on them. Is there a full screen text editor for AIX 3.2 which responds the
- >commands they are used to? (Something small, free, and easy to install would
- >be nice.)
- >
- You should consider using GNU's emacs. It's not small, but most flexible,
- so I guess you could customize it the way you like, and still have the full
- power available for more experienced users. And I suppose many of your users
- will soon like its language sensitivity as well as some of its advanced
- capabilities, though probably no user will ever be able to use all of them.
-
- You can ftp an AIX version from rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de which I had no
- problems to install (though I think it was for AIX 3.1). Only thing that
- was a bit difficult was getting non-english keyboards to work, but I don't
- think that should bother you.
-
- Klaus Kretschel
-