Incidentally, this is my work email address, and I'm spending far too much time messing with this here. So please could website submissions be directed to alugweb@ikitten.co.uk. Thank you!

Jonathan McDowell wrote:

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:11:08PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:

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Alexis Lee alexis@turton.com writes:

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Must say I've never heard of ae. Is it _really_ simple? I mentioned Pico because literally any idiot can use it (well, if they figure out ^X means CTRL-X).

ae and easyedit are both very simple and easy to use. PICO is hardly *that* good and the odd licence means it shouldn't be mentioned in polite society any more.

nano if you really want pico. Free and includes some missing features.

Me, I loath Pico. I was just of the impression it's a good beginners editor. I started with vi, so I have no firsthand experience. Trying to use something simple after using a proper editor feels like hopping down the road while hogtied (struggle, curse, struggle, jump, splat ...)

Personally I liked joe when I started out. I'm a hardened vim user now.

Better start people out on the path of light then. Seriously, I'll just write something like this:

<s name='Simple Editors'> <p>ae, easyedit, nano</p> </s> <s name='Proper Editors'> <p>Vim, emacs</p> </s>

If anyone wants to write a paragraph evangelising their editor or whatever, I'll put it up somewhere.

Alexis