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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark E. Mallett)
Fri Jan 22 18:05:52 1993
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:12:03 -0500
From: mem@mv.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett)
To: danj@atlantis.plh.af.bil
Cc: bblisa@inset.com
> Can anyone identify a simple, easy-to-use text editor that I
> can get off the e-net? I need something simple that will work from
> vt100 emulation. The primary use will be to remotely display large
> text files.
If you are attracted to, or at least not put off by, EMACS-like
editors, there are a couple that come right to mind. There's JOVE,
(Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs) by Jonathan Payne; I am using it now
to enter this message. Then there's PICA, the editor that comes with
the PINE mailer. PICA has got a callable interface as well as a
standalone editor, and is meant for complete novices. It's emacs-like
in flavor, but it always presents a menu of possible choices of
commands you can type. The callable interface makes it possible to
integrate it into other programs with different kinds of command
syntax (the PINE mailer does this).
-mm-
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