[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-06-24 kl. 12:10, skrev lawrencedo99 at gmail.com:
> 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.
>

My first and most important requirement on an editor is that it always
should be available "out-of-the" box no matter what customer site I get
to. So anything that doesn't come with VMS is out, such as Emacs.

Then, personaly, I never have come around learning TPU, EDT has served
me well both in the early days on RSX and VMS. Now, I haven't looked
too closely at this, but it is my impession that EDT is slightly more
"kind" against VT emulators then TPU is.