Re: SEUL: Text editors.

[Kevin Forge <forgeltd@pop.netaddress.usa.net>]

Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Kevin Forge wrote:
> 
> > This is a true story that illustrates why an edit.com clone needs to
> > be written for SEUL ( never mind what else is included ... Linux
> > wouldn't be Unix without VI ).
> > A Windows user ( lets call him SEUser ) who NEVER goes to the command
> 
> You have just explained why edit.com is easy. You haven't explained why
> the alternatives are hard. And it's the second time you've posted this to
> the list {yawn} my mail box is getting cluttered. Don't post this message
> again./ Please.
>
Other editors don't have to be hard to make edit.com easy.  just as how
other airliners don't have to be slow to make a Concord fast.
The simple fact is that edit is less difficult than all other command
line
editors to a Windows user, and soon to an X user ( once GNOME, TKDesk,
KDE and whoever else is doing a desktop make a notepad lookalike the
default editor )
-- 
: "Through the firewall, out the router, down the T1, across the
: backbone, bounced from satellite, Nothing but net."