Before actually trying to run Emacs (or vi), do your best to find out
how to quit from it! When you do, write down the procedure (simple) on a
piece of scrap paper.
It can be horribly frustrating to be in a program, and not know how to
get out of it so you can save your text and learn more.
Although it's limited, I use the Pine Composer and pico, which is
almost the same as the Pine Composer. (My ISP is lazy, and hasn't
updated Pine, fwiw. I have 3.95, not too far back.) The one function I
really miss is a "cursor-backward-word", to use an Emacs-style
expression.
Joe is quite nice, and can do a lot. It comes in various versions that
emulate other editors, and you might not need to learn new commands for
common operations. (I do wish my ISP would fix it so I could use it; I'm
probably going to switch ISPs before too long.)
In the long run, it seems wise to learn either vi or Emacs or both.
Neither is easy at first, and can seem downright hostile if you don't
have a good way of learning them.
|* Nicholas Bodley *|* Electronic Technician {*} Autodidact & Polymath
|* Waltham, Mass. *|* -----------------------------------------------
|* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *|* The personal computer industry will have become
|* Amateur musician *|* mature when crashes become unacceptable.
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