Re: Baby Emacs?

[B Smith-Mannschott]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 19:51, kj<no.email@please.post> wrote:
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> 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?
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> (A different co-worker suggested nano, but it does not look
> sufficiently Emacs-like to me.)
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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.

// ben