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From: jester@crash.cts.com (Ken Bibb)
Subject: Re: Small lisp-intended editor
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In <39m42f$6g0@obelix.cica.es> garciagu@risc39.fie.us.es (Gonzalo G Agullo) writes:

>Which small and easy editors are available for AIX with such capabilities
>(lisp-style indentation, () matching and so on) ?

vi -l file.lisp

puts you into vi's lisp mode.  Lisp mode include paren matching, etc.
The = command is used for pretty-printing.

The biggest loss is that vi can not be used as an environment, so the
students would have to go between a unix shell (like tcsh) and vi.

>I've tried MicroEmacs 3.12 and Jove 4.6.14.32. Both failed while installing
>for AIX. Other editors I found are not what we need (sometimes too big,
>sometimes too hard for newbies, sometimes too simple)

>What editors are you using/would you use in such scenario?

Another option would be to find an older (smaller) emacs...

