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From: B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs@gmail.com>
To: kj <no.email@please.post>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Baby Emacs?
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:22:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28c656e20907311422w45b4c942q1ed46ad93829b230@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h4vav4$c2j$1@reader1.panix.com>

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 19:51, kj<no.email@please.post> wrote:
>
>
>
> I am teaching programming to a few co-workers (research biologists).
> Most of them want some recommendation for a text editor.  Of 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.  Is there such a thing?
>
> (A different co-worker suggested nano, but it does not look
> sufficiently Emacs-like to me.)
>

Zile (http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/) is a pretty good ersatz
emacs. It's small and quick to start. I use it for quick and simple
edits.

// ben




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-31 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31 17:51 Baby Emacs? kj
2009-07-31 19:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-31 21:22 ` B Smith-Mannschott [this message]
2009-07-31 21:33   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-31 22:34 ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-08-01  0:03   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-01  9:41 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-02 16:03 ` Rugxulo
2009-08-02 16:58   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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