ttran@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Terry Tran) (01/31/91)
Please HELP... I'm new to this group, but I have a feeling that these questions have been asked before... Does any body know if there is a simple, user- friendly UNIX editor for computer-illiterated users? If there is (are) such editor(s), where and how I can get it (them)? Or will someone be kind enough to send it (them) to me? BTW, I'm not using Sun workstation. Thanks a million... -- Terry Tran terryt@ame1.convergent.com
joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) (02/02/91)
ttran@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Terry Tran) writes: >Please HELP... >friendly UNIX editor for computer-illiterated users? If there is (are) Change the Operating System. Otherwise you are going to get suggestions like "Fire your secretary." "Goto He**." "Learn awk, sed, ex, ed, ...................... after learning vi." >such editor(s), where and how I can get it (them)? Or will someone be >kind enough to send it (them) to me? BTW, I'm not using Sun workstation. You are out of luck again. vi is bad and emacs requires tons of resources. >Thanks a million... >-- You are welcome. >Terry Tran >terryt@ame1.convergent.com Anil -- "Whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions,then it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future, can be produced by our own present actions. how to act." - Vivekananda, Late Nineteenth Century Indian Philosopher
fin@norge.unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth) (02/02/91)
In article <1991Feb1.175448.18394@cs.uiuc.edu> joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes: >>friendly UNIX editor for computer-illiterated users? If there is (are) ... >You are out of luck again. vi is bad and emacs requires tons of resources. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ First, this is true of some -- but not all -- implementations. Second, the word processor that these same "computer--illiterated users" use on an IBM PC or Macintosh requires as much or more resources as the largest Emacs. Third, nowhere was it said that use of resources was in any way a limit. It is quite likely, after all, they are using a workstation. It may even have its own fairly large disk. Craig A. Finseth fin@unet.umn.edu [CAF13] University Networking Services +1 612 624 3375 desk University of Minnesota +1 612 625 0006 problems 130 Lind Hall, 207 Church St SE +1 612 626 1002 FAX Minneapolis MN 55455-0134, U.S.A.