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From: mmtowfig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mark Mehdi Towfigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.editors
Subject: Re: wanted: very simple screen editor
Message-ID: <1145@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 14:23:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 14:23:34 1987
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In article <7895@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <296@ginger.UUCP> mhb@ukfca1.UUCP () writes:
>>Does anyone know of a VERY VERY SIMPLE screen editor for dumb terminals.
>>
>>It should not spring any surprises when wrong keys are pressed (ie. vi,
>>emacs, etc. are not considered at all suitable).
>
>You know your needs best, but microemacs will do just what you want.
>Disable all key bindings except those you want.

I agree with this; vi is a piece of junk, which no one should ever
have to use.  The Emacs-*style* editor I use, JOVE, can easily disable
the bindings you don't want, as Bill said.  You could just have five
functional command keys, if you wanted.  It has a lot of nice
features; one of the most powerful is used in programming:  the key
sequence ^X^E saving all modified files, runs make (or another command
of your choosing) into a buffer, and then takes you to each line where
an error occurred, to fix up.  You can also run shells, or pipe a
given region through a command and back into the region (like using
cb, the C beautifier.  It's on many UNIX systems, and I think it comes
with 4.3 BSD.  I can't tell you how strongly I recommend it.

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