On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:05:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > >>> I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email > >>> and word documents over for her. > >> Enjoy teaching her LaTex while she's at it. May as well get her away > >> from "word" into a real system. > > > > this is not necessarily as inappropriate as others have > > suggested. *My* mother (wild generalizations based on one anecdotal > > case follows...) would likely greatly appreciate a CLI based > > editor. All totalled, she has probably processed 10x more words in WP > > 5.1 or so than in all the gui editors combined. Its highly likely that > > an older person may be more comfortable in that environment just from > > past experience. I should probably talk to her about that and see if > > she wants to move "back" to something like that... > > e3 and joe emulate WordStar, if she's *really* old-school.
Good'ol mc with mcedit are great. My dad would be quite at home in front of my VT520; he hasn't been here since I bought it. I remember going to his work (insurance underwriter) when I was a kid; I remember all the green-screens. Then again, he did math on a Facit mechanical calculator. Long division was fun on that! Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
