Re: SEUL: SEOL Text EDITOR

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> George Bonser wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote:
> > 
> > > Well if emacs is too large, there are quite a few "emacs-like" editors like joe
> > > and jed which are small enough, and offer a comfortable home for a new user.
> > > Definitely more comfortable than vi.
> > 
> > More comfortable if you use emacs.  I find vi more comfortable than emacs
> > probably because I use it.  We need a text editor like pico that lets the
> > user use the arrow keys, backspace over text to erase it &c.
> 
> Let me throw a new spin on this incompitence theory.  I have used Linux
> for over 3 years now on my own machine.  The only time I've used vi is
> when I had no other choice.  Such as when installing a new distro that
> only included it.  Once I could get a simpler program I did and vi
> gathred dust.
> 

Agreed about VI.  :-)

> This is for a few reasons.  I have yet to find anything to do on my
> system that required any editor other than something like pico or ae. 
> Whenever I would get in the mood to play with source files, I would get
> a program like ddd or use Xemacs.  The most prominent reason is because
> I don't wish to learn vi or emacs.  I want to open a program, do what I
> opened it for and close it.
> 
> I would rather spend a week finding a more intuitive interface
> (primitive if you like) than spend more than a month learning how to use
> vi or emacs.  I have better things to do than sit reading doc's to learn
> how to tab a paragraph over.
> 

Emacs has menus.  In fact you can look Emacs as a mouse editor with
keyboard shortcuts like any newer editor.  The fact than Emacs was
born on TTYs has led to teaching its use through the shortcuts.  And
even if not intuitive, programmers would be better to use it instead
of most intuitive editors: Emacs will avoid you some bugs.  Of course
you could use Xemacs instead.  :-)

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

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