From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rugxulo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Baby Emacs? Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 09:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5d5e8baa-70ed-4825-a632-5d86713786f4@k1g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249235709 14468 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2009 17:55:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:55:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 02 19:55:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MXfGu-0002hH-CH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:55:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXfGt-0006oA-SQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:54:59 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k1g2000yqf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249229001 3429 127.0.0.1 (2 Aug 2009 16:03:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:03:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k1g2000yqf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.37 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171476 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:54:37 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66667 Archived-At: Hi, On Jul 31, 12:51=A0pm, kj wrote: > > I am teaching programming to a few co-workers (research biologists). > Most of them want some recommendation for a text editor. =A0Of course, > I recommend to them Emacs, but I would prefer to recommend a simpler > version of Emacs, one with fewer features, and also fewer ways to > get confused. =A0Is there such a thing? > > (A different co-worker suggested nano, but it does not look > sufficiently Emacs-like to me.) > > TIA! GNU Emacs is definitely superior to the lighter versions, but it also takes a lot more space. However, it seems portability is getting less and less for it. In other words, it really depends on what OS you use, what features you need, etc. Small Emacs? Try one of the following: mg2a, MicroEmacs, JASSPA MicroEmacs (or NanoEmacs for the ultra simplistic), ZILE, JED, or even Digital Mars' very weird offshoot of MicroEmacs. However, in all honesty, I would only truly recommend those if you don't need UTF-8 (although JED does sorta have it now). I don't think GNU Emacs will confuse them very much, and it does do a lot more (including emulations for other editors if needed)! Also, JOE doesn't really count but can mimic Emacs a bit in keypresses.