From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, kj <no.email@please.post>
Subject: Re: Baby Emacs?
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:33:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50907311433o3437e437pd0ea01631b81aed4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28c656e20907311422w45b4c942q1ed46ad93829b230@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:22 PM, B
Smith-Mannschott<bsmith.occs@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
But Emacs starts in about 1 sec on my old pc if I do "emacs -Q".
Perhaps Zile is quicker and I do not know how fast these people are
... ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-31 21:33 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 [this message]
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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