From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Baby Emacs? Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249071901 28659 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 20:25:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:25:01 +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 22:24:54 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 1MWyer-000457-8U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:24:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWyeq-0003WP-Ld for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:24:52 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!novia!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1249062692 12371 166.84.1.3 (31 Jul 2009 17:51:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:51:32 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171395 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:20:20 -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:66583 Archived-At: 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! kynn