From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Baby Emacs? Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 02:41:58 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <712468ac-0406-4062-92be-0ec235cf5c20@u38g2000pro.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249129380 13406 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2009 12:23:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 12:23:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 01 14:22:53 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 1MXDbt-0004tm-Sj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:22:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45432 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXDbt-0003Rr-5X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:22:49 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u38g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249119718 808 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2009 09:41:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 09:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u38g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA 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:171432 comp.emacs:98504 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:20:31 -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:66622 Archived-At: On Jul 31, 10:51 am, kj 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: =E2=80=A2 How To Make Emacs Use Modern User Interface http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_make_modern.html =E2=80=A2 Emacs and Microsoft Windows Tips http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_mswin.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84