From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 16:04:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA18600 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:04:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18595 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17456; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:02:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: Gary Kline cc: shadows@whitefang.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Easy editors In-Reply-To: <199609161756.KAA00289@athena.tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > According to The ShadowS Know: > > Good reply to valid points raised. My wife, among others, > flames my system when she has to use vi to create a doc > or send mail, etc. > > I'm wondering if there is any combo of X editor and mailer > that I can set up for her to ``emulate'' the Mac that she is > used to and loves/loved, or the PeeCee that she is using now. > > Bear in mind that this is a woman who has no interest in > learning a new editor.... There is mh or xmh--yes?--that > would be kind of push buttom. For click and drag with a motif-like feel (which is the direction you're looking), look for tkmail. It's a tcl/tk app that I really liked, and includes important stuff like spell checking. My wife had no problems getting used to it. Of course, I don't know if it's been updated to work with tcl 7.4/tk 4.X