From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Ekstrand Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Baby Emacs? Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:34:17 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249080105 17133 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 22:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:41:45 +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 00:41:38 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 1MX0nB-0003Hj-U9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:41:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47970 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MX0nB-0003vr-7l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:41:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 3k4OpuCxx2rBT/R1RUDefw.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NTyWpM10tHt9WZugZAsPVNxOzAw= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171409 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:66593 Archived-At: 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? If you really do want a simpler Emacs, I would second the recommendation of zile. I question, however, the advisedness of this. IMO, the major advantage to using Emacs is its feature set, not its key bindings or a particular editing model. If you don't want the feature set, there are other editors which are easier to learn than Emacs (such as nano, gedit, or JEdit). I'd go with a normal Emacs with a sane and simple initial configuration. Sure, it has lots of ways to get confused, but it has the real advantages of Emacs available. - Michael