On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:41:30PM +1200, Yuri de Groot wrote: > I have yet to find a decent console-based word-processor.
oh, you don't need to remove the gui completely, just give him the commandline to control the computer, start programs and all that, so he will type "kedit &" to start the kde gui editor. in the end editing text is just editing text, and the concept of windows is easier to accept than this navigating around menues, searching for icons and all that. that will let him do managment (moving files around and all that) in a comfortable environment end restrict gui exposure to webbrowsing and editing. > Does emacs have wordstar bindings? it has vi bindings, so i guess anything is possible. there is a commandline editor with wordstar bindings (in relation to your question above) but i don't know the name as i don't even know how wordstar bindings look like. > (He started computing with old PDPs and stuff, before he became a luddite). pdp ran unix, so he should be comfortable learning unix commands. > Can I set up DOSEmu as his default shell? no, i fear a lot of stuff would break. you could automaticly start dosemu after he logged in. greetings, martin. -- looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
