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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Subject: Re: What do you want in a simple editor?
- Message-ID: <mxynjgh.messina@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 18:54:16 GMT
- Organization: Messina Software
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- ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard) writes:
-
- >Hello,
- >I have written a small simple editor for unix. Yet another editor might say
- >some of you.. yes but neither emacs nor vi met my requirements which were :
- >Make it simple and intuitive to use for users who dont know about emacs or vi
- >and come from a ms/dos background.
-
- This is a very noble undertaking.
-
- >This is why for example I choose to implement wordstar commands.
-
- Quite honestly - how many DOS users know Wordstar commands? Only those
- who have been using PCs when Wordstar was still alive, that is, a
- negligable minority.
-
- >Now, before I release it to the net my question is : what would you need from
- >an editor if you where a beginner in unix and came from a dos background?
-
- QEdit. Since it's not there and I suppose it would be rather hard to
- implement it's full functionality without making it ridiculously
- difficult to use, I settle now for mg for small stuff (letters, small
- files) and vi for bigger stuff.
-
- >What do you think of micro-emacs word wrap (i.e insert a carriage return when
- >befor the last word at the end of line)? Do you think it's convenient or would
- >you prefer a full word-wrap?
-
- Give either an option of hard or soft return if you can, but hard MUST
- be there.
-
- >What do you think of vi 'word' wrap (i.e wrap the line around the screen but
- >not inserting a CR) ?
-
- That's the first I hear about it. set wrapmargin=<whatever> does
- insert hard returns. I think you are talking about a feature of your
- emulator, not vi itself.
-
-
- t.
-