[Info-vax] EDT and SET WORD [NO]DELIMITER

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Sun Nov 20 14:10:27 EST 2011


In article <jabapl$76j$2 at online.de>,
 helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) 
 wrote:

> This question often arises when I can't figure out how to do something
> in EDT.  Almost always, I find out how to do it in EDT eventually, and
> it is much easier than in TPU.  I also don't like TPU for other reasons:
> it reads in the whole file at the beginning, special characters aren't
> displayed properly, the cursor jumps around in strange ways, it is 
> slower.  I've seen life-long TPU users start using EDT because it is 
> simply better for many tasks (one example is testing something 
> interactively then using EDT in a batch job for large-scale file 
> manipulation).

The trick is to use editor each for what it is best at.

I happily swap between the two.

-- 
Paul Sture



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