[ILUG] text editor for absolute beginners

[Padraig Brady]

Ken Guest wrote:
> Looking to install a text editor that'll be used by absolute beginners. 
> I don't want to, nor have the time,
> to teach them how to use emacs or vim so I'm really looking for the 
> simplest editor that's out there
> it doesn't have to have any fancy functionality or anything like that.
> I'm leaning towards pico - is there anything simpler?

For a user transitioning from windows I would suggest
(in decreasing order of preference):

http://www.nedit.org/
http://www.micampe.it/software/moleskine/
http://gedit.sourceforge.net/

If people are stuck with vim then:
http://www.iol.ie/~padraiga/vim.tips

Padraig.