[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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