From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Baby Emacs? Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:34:48 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87hbwsd4tj.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249069250 21022 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 19:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 21:40:43 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 1MWxy6-0003Gx-Ml for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWxy6-00054H-1S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:40:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 1Zrd0k2B0KG+XAxSIGTVBg9tzGaekdwqP8+6rXdi4tyKVSU50H Cancel-Lock: sha1:OTk0YzgwN2ExODI3ZmNiMzNkOTM2NGRkN2JlMWQ0NmUzYzExNGMxZQ== sha1:iM7fAr7jMNS/DykxmaY/fbgMCuc= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171396 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:66579 Archived-At: kj writes: > 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? Of course there's one: emacs -Q With the bonus of a faster launch, and quicker operation in general. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__