Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!jay From: jay@hqda-ai.ARPA (Jay Hiser) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Editor for mail Summary: Instead of emacs, try jove or microemacs Keywords: mail editors emacs mush Message-ID: <7468@hqda-ai.ARPA> Date: 16 Jul 88 21:43:49 GMT References: <215@fed.FRB.GOV> <2369@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Reply-To: jay@hqda-ai.ARPA (Jay Heiser) Organization: CBSI@Washington, D.C. Lines: 19 If you are thinking of using emacs -- just for the purpose of an e-mail editor -- you should consider one of the smaller e-macs type editors. I'm using e-macs now, and its a great editor, but the source is huge and its easy for a non-computer jock (and jocks too) to get lost in the mutitudious features. I've got jove (Jonathon [Payne's] own version of emacs) and find it very useful. It works with the VT100 arrow keys if you want, and should be able to work with any ESC O or ESC [ sequence sent by the keypad (you'll need to make sure that the keypad is in the correct mode). Jove is probably 1/10 the size of GNU emacs. you can still set up your own bindings, you can have it go into auto-fill mode automatically, it even has a spell checker if they want (but here it isn't as friendly as GNU emacs). If you set it up correctly, I believe that anyone can hack out a letter on it. A full implementation of emacs is overkill for your purpose.