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From: kevin@ttidca.TTI.COM (Kevin Carothers)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.editors
Subject: Re: wanted: very simple screen editor
Message-ID: <1484@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: Sat, 21-Nov-87 01:04:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 21 01:04:19 1987
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>In article <296@ginger.UUCP> mhb@ukfca1.UUCP () writes:
>-Does anyone know of a VERY VERY SIMPLE screen editor for dumb terminals.

And Doug Gwyn writes: (gwyn@brl.arpa) 
>Use EMACS with its keys bound to the desired commands and other command
>keystrokes bound to something innocuous such as ring-bell.  (...)

Well, sounds like a potential problem if more than three or four people
start using EMACS, and other memory-bound processes are going on 
also. Remember that EMACS, even in it's simplest executable state
(no windows, no multiple file opens, etc...) is a *HUGE* muhonga
(about a quarter mbyte?).

I don't know what the intent is in the systems design, but if a 
simple forward-backward type browse is needed, with "marks" and
simple selective writes, maybe the "less" pager  posted a couple
of weeks ago (sorry - forgot the newsgroup) would be sufficient?

PS
---
Can the original poster be more specific on the exact terminal?
EMACS doesn't work very well on some dumb (ie; no cursor-positioning)
terminals...Never did get it to work on some  ADDS, and Lear-Siegler
models.


Kevin

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