Frank,

The user is not likely to spend the time required to learn X. He is close
to retirement and is used to a character cell environment.

I have not convinced him to use Pico, or jed, or joe. He does like EDT (he
has been using VMS in character cell mode) but PC keyboards are ackward
with VT based software. The editor that comes with Midnight Commander
looks promissing (thanks Ben).

On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Richard Rauch wrote:
> If he'll be running under X, you might point him to EMACS or XEmacs.  
> Both, under X, have nice, beginner-friendly menus.  As he grows more
> accustomed to them, he can take advantage of some of their other
> features.  E.g., EMACS features a ``speedbar'' feature that seems to
> be a popular idea with software development tools: It lets you
> navigate through a project, fairly seemlessly moving not only around
> in directories, but also moving around in language constructs (C++
> class definitions, function definitions, and so forth).
> 
> (I wouldn't recommend them to someone who isn't able to use X, however.
> Not, at least, if the person doesn't have time/interest to deal with a
> long-winded tutorial document to learn how to use the editors.  With a
> GUI, the editors are fairly easy to use without a tutorial.)

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