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`easy editor' installed in outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 30 06:25:26 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 06:25:11 -0400
To: bug-outland@MIT.EDU, software-announce@MIT.EDU
Cc: pbh@MIT.EDU
I finally got around to finishing installing ee for the sun, decmips,
and rs6k, in outland.
ee is heavily reliant on curses, and has some problems and some
slowness due to curses problems from platform to platform (especially
the RS/6k right now; it's using a shell script wrapper); I'll be
working on this as time goes by. When I get a good, stable version
for all platforms, I'll move the program into the sipb locker.
Please send all bug reports, comments, BTTH's, etc. to
bug-outland@mit.edu.
A section of the README.ee (in /mit/outland/src/ee) follows:
The editor 'ee' (easy editor) is intended to be a simple, easy to use
terminal-based screen oriented editor that requires no instruction to
use. Its primary use would be for people who are new to computers, or who
use computers only for things like e-mail.
ee's simplified interface is highlighted by the use of pop-up menus which
make it possible for users to carry out tasks without the need to
remember commands. An information window at the top of the screen shows
the user the operations available with control-keys.
ee relies on the virtual memory abilities of the platform it is running on
and does not have its own memory management capabilities.
I am releasing ee because I hate to see new users and non-computer types
get frustrated by vi, and would like to see more intuitive interfaces for
basic tools (both character-based and graphical) become more pervasive.
Terminal capabilities and communication speeds have evolved considerably
since the time in which vi's interface was created, allowing much more
intuitive interfaces to be used. Since character-based I/O won't be
completely replaced by graphical user interfaces for at least a few more
years, I'd like to do what I can to make using computers with less
glamorous interfaces as easy to use as possible. If terminal interfaces
are still used in ten years, I hope neophytes won't still be stuck with
only vi.
