easy to use WYSIWIG editor for VT102

andrew clarke mail at ozzmosis.com
Fri May 29 12:07:24 UTC 2015


On Fri 2015-05-29 11:05:28 UTC+0200, Matthias Apitz (guru at unixarea.de) wrote:

> I'm looking for an easy to use WYSIWIG editor which could be used on
> VT102 terminals by my 9 years old son (to let him write mails and text files).
> 'ee' is an option, but maybe there is something more fancy supporting
> this type of terminals.

Since the late '80s the term "WYSIWYG" has implied a graphical
bitmapped display, proportional fonts, accurate scaling and so on,
none of which is provided by a VT102 terminal.

There are alternatives to ee, for example emacs, nano & jed, but none
of them are WYSIWYG (and neither is ee).


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