richard@neabbs.UUCP (RICHARD RONTELTAP) (04/04/89)
Currently, our home made BBS (running on SCO XENIX /386 2.2.3) has an
edlin-type editor, which, frankly, is getting on my nerves.
It would be much nicer to have a simple-to-use (and learn), full screen editor.
There are a number of editors available like VI, Micro Emacs, Mined (MINEX)
and many more, but: They all have way too many features for BBS usage!
(And some, like VI, are too difficult to learn for our BBS users)
So, before I start reinventing the wheel:
Is there a simple, PD, full screen editor out there?
I think it should have these options:
- Move: up, down, left, right, page up/down, word forward/backward, home, end.
- Delete: characters (BS and Del), words, lines.
- Insert: toggle.
- Save/abort.
- Find/replace
- No modes! (ala VI)
and maybe:
- Block: copy, move, delete
Pretty basic, nah?
Any pointers appreciated!
Richard
(...!mcvax!neabbs!richard)davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr) (04/05/89)
In article <126023@neabbs.UUCP> richard@neabbs.UUCP (RICHARD RONTELTAP) writes: | Currently, our home made BBS (running on SCO XENIX /386 2.2.3) has an | edlin-type editor, which, frankly, is getting on my nerves. | | It would be much nicer to have a simple-to-use (and learn), full screen editor. | There are a number of editors available like VI, Micro Emacs, Mined (MINEX) | and many more, but: They all have way too many features for BBS usage! | (And some, like VI, are too difficult to learn for our BBS users) Why don't you take MicroEMACS and just disable the features you don't like? And change the key bindings to what you want? This is all doable from the startup script (.emacsrc) and should take you all of two hours to do if you comment your script. -- bill davidsen (wedu@crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me