[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[John Reagan]

On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 7:40:24 PM UTC-4, lawren... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 1:13:04 AM UTC+12, Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
> >    I've asked for this before, and I'll say it again.  VMS needs to have
> >    keyboard layouts for EDT and DEBUG that are PC friendly.
> 
> EDT is another tool that needs to die.
> 
> In my RSTS/E days, we used a TECO-based screen editor called VTED (a local adaptation of some code originally from DECUS or somewhere). Unfortunately that was never ported to the VAX. So I gritted my teeth and put up with EDT for whatever far-too-long fraction of my lifetime it was until TPU came along, which was halfway decent in comparison (even with that weird initial (mis)behaviour with search pattern matches).
> 
> Nowadays of course I use Emacs. Is Emacs available for VMS? That has to be a big improvement to whatever DEC-originated editor you might be using now.

There is at least two different Emacs for OpenVMS.  That is what I use as a daily editor.  Works great using PuTTY via my Windows 7 box.