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dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:

> Recently, I've been trying to interest someone in
> this most wonderful program, (gnu) Emacs.
>
> Trouble is, he's already using Gedit (google's editor);

Gnome Edit.  It's only hosted at google code.

> every time I try to show him some Emacs concep, he says
> that he can do that in gedit also.

Leave him alone.  You'll only annoy him.

Gedit focuses on simplicity.  Some users like that over
being able to do almost anything.