personally, I think even a mostly brian-dead user could figure out how to use mc and mcedit ..
especially since anyone who has used windows for any length of time would be familiar with xtree and norton commander... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shara Hearns Sent: Tuesday, 22 January 2002 2:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Need a very simple editor On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 03:54, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: > > > What keystrokes? Everything in windows is mouse clicks. > > > In Win 3.1/95/98/NT3.51/NT4 _everything_ can be done with keyboard. At > laeast I know no application that is part of these OSes that has > controls inaccessible by keyboard-only. I admit I had trobles with Win2k > WinME management tools. But generally you can do almost everything with > standard 101key keyboard in win (as opposed to, say, GNOME). I think you missed the point I was trying to make. What I was getting at is that "most" users coming from a Windoze background will have no idea whatsoever how to use a pc other than by way of a gui interface, leaving them utterly dumb-founded when faced with a problem that leaves them stranded at a *nix commandline. They're dead in the water. Sure, one can reflect back to the good old days of DOS, Wordstar, even Word Perfect (eeech!), but reality is that Uncle Bill has done such a good job of dumbing down the desktop, since Win95 (really), that making the move from Win-anything to any type of *nix is not a pleasant experience for a lot of people. Now seriously, how many _average_ WinDoze users do you know that can really handle a problem when their gui is not accessable? Less than 1% I would guess. As for Gnome... Have you tried ALT-F1 ??? Shara
