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Re: Baby Emacs?
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Michael Ekstrand |
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Re: Baby Emacs? |
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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:34:17 -0500 |
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kj 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?
If you really do want a simpler Emacs, I would second the recommendation
of zile.
I question, however, the advisedness of this. IMO, the major advantage
to using Emacs is its feature set, not its key bindings or a particular
editing model. If you don't want the feature set, there are other
editors which are easier to learn than Emacs (such as nano, gedit, or
JEdit).
I'd go with a normal Emacs with a sane and simple initial configuration.
Sure, it has lots of ways to get confused, but it has the real
advantages of Emacs available.
- Michael