Re: Baby Emacs?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:22 PM, B
Smith-Mannschott<bsmith.occs@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 19:51, kj<no.email@please.post> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I am teaching programming to a few co-workers (research biologists).
>> Most of them want some recommendation for a text editor.  Of course,
>> I recommend to them Emacs, but I would prefer to recommend a simpler
>> version of Emacs, one with fewer features, and also fewer ways to
>> get confused.  Is there such a thing?
>>
>> (A different co-worker suggested nano, but it does not look
>> sufficiently Emacs-like to me.)
>>
>
> Zile (http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/) is a pretty good ersatz
> emacs. It's small and quick to start. I use it for quick and simple
> edits.


But Emacs starts in about 1 sec on my old pc if I do "emacs -Q".
Perhaps Zile is quicker and I do not know how fast these people are
... ;-)