From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Title: Re: Article-I.D.: floyd.459 Posted: Fri Aug 20 15:14:17 1982 Received: Sat Aug 21 04:45:42 1982 References: ucb.1797 RMS thinks that anyone who screws himself with ^W is hopeless. I know that many people use systems (like Berkeley UNIX) which use ^W forand they (I) hit it automatically whether I am on a Berkeley UNIX system or not. Fortunately, I now know about ^Y, but if I am a casual user on an ITS system, and I want to edit my mail, then EMACS is the editor I would get thrown into, and I don't have to know about ^W^Y to productively enter my mail text. Yes, NOVICE sounds wonderful. Is it available under any of the UNIX-flavored EMACS-style editors? Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491