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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Baby Emacs?
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 02:41:58 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <712468ac-0406-4062-92be-0ec235cf5c20@u38g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: h4vav4$c2j$1@reader1.panix.com

On Jul 31, 10:51 am, kj <no.em...@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.)
>
> TIA!

if they are on windows, i suggest emacsW32. If they are on mac, then
Aquamacs Emacs.

the following pages might help:

• How To Make Emacs Use Modern User Interface
  http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_make_modern.html

• Emacs and Microsoft Windows Tips
  http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_mswin.html

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-01  9:41 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
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 [this message]
2009-08-02 16:03 ` Rugxulo
2009-08-02 16:58   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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