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Brian,
You may be able to get THE - The Hessling Editor - to do what you want since
it appears to have been made in the image of xedit a CMS (mainframe) editor
that was used extensively to provide user input.
apt-get install the
.. and have a look.
Chris
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From: "Brian Nelson" <nelson@bignachos.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: looking for restricted editor
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I'm looking for some kind of editor that can be prevented from opening
> > arbitrary files, and can, ideally, be set up to only start up with a
> > given file at the command line, and save to that same file. It should be
> > easy to use too. Does such a beast exist?
>
> I don't know of any such editors, but if you use a toolkit with a
> built-in text editing widget (such as Qt's QTextEdit), it would be quite
> easy to write such a beast yourself.
>
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> Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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