[H-GEN] ae ???

[Tony Bilbrough]

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G'day All,
And the Trendies and Jet Setters.

Well it seems that at long last this discussion has got up to the sort
of level that the real amatuers/newbies can grasp. And, I think, what
the original question was really all about!
Most of you seem to have wandered off into really esoteric realms, with
little connection or understanding, to the problem the unloved and un
washed really have.
It is to find a really simple to use wysiwyg editor, with the minimum
learning curve.

The 'show' command  seems to make a lot of the options clearer.
Well done, Brad.
How come no one else thought of it before hand?
Saves a lot of personal view points, but gives all the real basic
programme info for one to take a look at, and perhaps have a stab at
installing and using.

That write up looks very much to me, as though aee is close enough in
user style, to the MS Notepad, eh? Am I close?

If so, the question for me now, is :
1. If it is in a Debian o/s, can aee be installed into RedHat 7.1 o/s?
and if 'yes'
2. is the installation a simple, i.e. newbie level, task.
3. or is there the usual, almost arcane twist, to the installation?
One that has even the most experienced Humbug practitioners sucking air
thru a gap in their teeth, while they try to show one just how really
easy it is to install??

All that said, Sandra , can you do us all 'show' on nano and pico, so we
can compare them to aee?
And - are nano & pico on RH7.1 distro? I'm pretty sure I remember you
saying that you used RH.
I have really been struggling to master vi. There just seem to be so
many little twists to learn.
Sorry, I can't do it as I'm on a machine with one of those other types
of o/s - because sheer ineptitude on my part does not yet allow me to
work seriously [vis earn a miserable crust] with Linux, yet [but that
day will come, I know]

To the rest of you
Thanks for sharing a most interesting discussion on editors. It always
will be a most important topic.
Tony B



> Bradley Marshall wrote:
> Debian has two distinct packages, `ae', and `aee'.  The
> output from apt-cache show follows.  They appear to be two
> distinctly different packages.
> 
> $ apt-cache show aee
> Package: aee
> Priority: optional
> Section: editors
> Installed-Size: 443
> Maintainer: Ramakrishnan M <rkrishnan at debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 2.2.7-2
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
> Filename: pool/main/a/aee/aee_2.2.7-2_i386.deb
> Size: 197724
> MD5sum: a51e0856d84831c63c47cd4cb33a109b
> Description: An easy to use screen-based editor
>  aee (advanced easy editor) is intended to be an easy to use  screen-based
>  editor that requires no instruction to use. Its interface is highlighted
>  by simple pop-up menus, which makes it easy for the users to carry out
>  tasks without remembering the commands.
> 
> $ apt-cache show ae
> Package: ae
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: standard
> Section: editors
> Installed-Size: 75
> Maintainer: Dale Scheetz (Dwarf #1) <dwarf at polaris.net>
> Version: 962-30
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2), slang1 (>> 1.3.0-0)
> Conffiles:
>  /etc/ae.rc d5ea2f0e59cd9f9b72669a0afbb807e1
> Description: Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen editor
>  ae is a tiny full-screen text editor with both modal (vi-like)
>  and modeless (emacs-like) modes, determined by an ae.rc config file.
>  .
>  Keybindings are configurable in the configuration file. The default config
>  file is /etc/ae.rc, but other configuration files are provided
>  in /usr/share/doc/ae, as an alternate example.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad
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