From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 23 13:42:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA17200 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 13:42:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17195 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 13:42:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA08245; Thu, 23 May 1996 13:34:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605232034.NAA08245@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: editors To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 13:34:07 -0700 (MST) Cc: gmarco@masternet.it, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605231317.OAA24711@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at May 23, 96 02:17:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > For beginners, newbie and rookie (as I am) I think the best solution is > > uemacs... > > > > I'm curious, what exactly is a newbie in this context, what sort of > user group are we trying to win over? A person who does not already have training in the editor that they must use to get base level functionality out of their system. So the editor must be one with a clearly identified help command at all times, at a minimum, and, preferrably, menus that get accessed by the help command instead of just an odd "learn these control keys" table. I suspect the editor would have to be "modeless" (unlike vi or ex). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.