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[ILUG] text editor for absolute beginners

[ILUG] text editor for absolute beginners

Michael Armbrecht marmbrecht at eircom.net
Thu Dec 12 22:48:03 GMT 2002


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Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 11:05 schrieb Ken Guest:
> 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 have discovered jEdit, a text editor written in Java, runs everywhere, has 
all that is needed and there are lots of plugins as well. It is my editor of 
choice where I can't run emacs.

Check http://www.jedit.org

Mick

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