[ILUG] text editor for absolute beginners

Sean Rima sean at tcob1.net
Tue Dec 10 18:18:03 GMT 2002


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Hi Ken!

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, 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?
> 

I believe that others have adviced against Pico which is a good thing,
Nano is a better idea. Whilst a tad more work, I would go for Jed, my
wife uses it and she is a complete novice

Sean
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