david@rolf.stat.uga.edu (David Gundlach) (11/26/90)
Hello netters! This is to let people know that I have received numerous answers to the elmedit question and also a number of requests to post followups. Since I am at home for Thanksgiving and logging in at 1200 baud (yeucchhh!) I will not be implementing any of the solutions at the moment. I will, however, be taking care of that sometime next week. I will be posting a summary to the net as well as mailing copies of everything I have to those who have requested. If you would like copies sent to you, then by all means send me a request. If a posting (long) will be sufficient, please try to hold out for another week. With any luck, my posting will actually be *posted* instead of mailed by hand. It looks as though the University has finally found a newsfeed, and we're back in business! Thanks again for all of your support. More is forthcoming... :-) David Gundlach david@rolf.stat.uga.edu UGA Statistics BITNET: statuga@uga University of Georgia 404/542-3289 or 404/542-5232 You think I'm concerned about it? You're darned right. What I'm going to do about it? Let's just wait and see. -- George Bush on the Kuwaiti crisis
david@rolf.stat.uga.edu (David Gundlach) (11/26/90)
Hello, net.helping.people! At last I can summarize the great search for a bare-bones, stripped- down ascii editor for ELM, the ELectronic Mail program (thanks for the correction to lyman@Inference.COM and wuxing@comp.mscs.mu.edu!). I got three basic answers: 1) GNU's Emacs or Micro Emacs (or JOVE, Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs) 2) A simple editor that had long ago been posted to the net 3) A simple editor written by lyman (that he isn't proud enough of to publish :-) GNU Emacs seems to be fairly universal and pretty accepted, but we don't have it just yet :-) We've been waiting on those two big disks for a while now... The posted editor is a simple, single-screen editor with no special commands available, but it's *really* simple. I'll have to check it out thoroughly, but this probably won't get used. I'm not a C programmer (I'd love to be, but the two books I tried were not for Sun's flavor of UNIX :-(, and then I got busy again...), but John Lyman tells me that the code is so easy it almost isn't funny. Since they use it widely at his site, his may be the editor I go with until I can whip up Emacs. Remember, though, that it's not an official 'release'! There was one other editor called SimpEd that was promised to me... I'll try it out and post the news if it's interesting enough. Pat "I'm not an engineer" Fitz: WOOF WOOF WOOF! I have no hope, but I will bite you anyway :-) Ernest, Jim, Neal (It got here :-), Steen, Jim (I'm on a Sun at SunOS4.0.3), Dr. Debande, Aaron, Brian and Ian (as well as anyone else who wants copies): I will hang on to all code I have and will forward the package of all responses and code to anyone who wishes. Please send me mail. If you can't get to me, then post it and I'll probably see it. I'd like to thanks everyone for all their help. Talk about open systems! :-) David Gundlach david@rolf.stat.uga.edu UGA Statistics BITNET: statuga@uga University of Georgia 404/542-3289 or 404/542-5232 I think, therefore I am wrong -- me
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (11/27/90)
In article <25094@adm.brl.mil> david@rolf.stat.uga.edu (David Gundlach) writes: >At last I can summarize the great search for a bare-bones, stripped- >down ascii editor for ELM, the ELectronic Mail program (thanks for >the correction to lyman@Inference.COM and wuxing@comp.mscs.mu.edu!). Of course, what all applications are SUPPOSED to do is to honor the EDITOR environment variable, and if it is not set, invoke /bin/ed. Any special text editor you may wish to provide would have its name set as the value of EDITOR before starting the application. Does /bin/ed really not exist on some system?