Re: Baby Emacs?

[Xah Lee]

On Jul 31, 10:51 am, kj <no.em...@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.)
>
> TIA!

if they are on windows, i suggest emacsW32. If they are on mac, then
Aquamacs Emacs.

the following pages might help:

• How To Make Emacs Use Modern User Interface
  http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_make_modern.html

• Emacs and Microsoft Windows Tips
  http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_mswin.html

  Xah
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