Simple editor that supports line wrapping
[Sending this for the third time since the first two attemps
apparently didn't make it through.]
I'm looking into installing Mutt on my mom's machine. Saying that
my dear mother is not a technical person would be putting it
mildly. Having her use Mutt is crazy enough in itself ; I'd rather
keep the editor side of things as simple as possible. This means
that vi is out, and emacs probably is as well.
I'm looking for a simple editor suitable for editing mail in Mutt,
more or less Notepad-in-an-xterm. Desirable features :
- run in an xterm,
- support ISO-8859-1,
- be modeless,
- not let the user accidentally get into a mode that a retard
wouldn't know how to get out of (think hitting ^Z or Q in vi),
- wrap lines automatically to a specified width,
- support the sort of bindings a Windows user might expect (arrow
keys, [home], [end], [shift][ins] to paste, selection by [shift]
+ movement).
Undesirable features :
- macros, regexps, and generally anything beyond the scope of
Notepad. If she ever needs doing something complicated, I'll
make her start vi and hand-hold her through the process.
Neither nano nor joe seem to fit the bill. Any other ideas ?
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André Majorel <amajorel@xxxxxxxxx>
http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/