Re: looking for restricted editor

2002-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
It looks like micro-Emacs has what you want: >From http://www.eeng.brad.ac.uk/help/.edit/.uemacs/.appa.html > -RThis places EMACS in "restricted mode" where any commands allowing the > user to read or write any files other than > the ones listed on the command line are disabled. Also

Re: looking for restricted editor

2002-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
No doubt you've already considered this, but Emacs does what you want via custom key maps and function hooks. Of course, it's probably more horsepower than you need. I don't claim any expertise in Emacs, but I had to solve a similar problem on an operating system long ago and far away (OpenVMS/TPU)

Re: looking for restricted editor

2002-05-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 exis