[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <1f7121c1-17ec-4541-bc12-f795dafd8236 at googlegroups.com>,
lawrencedo99 at gmail.com writes: 

> >    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.

I don't really see the point of working on VMS with anything but a 
proper keyboard.

> EDT is another tool that needs to die.

Definitely not.  If you don't like it, don't use it.

Though it has a couple of limitations (doesn't like lines longer than 
255 characters and can't process more than 65535 lines in one command), 
in practice this is not a problem, at least for hand-edited files.  It 
has some advantages over EVE: it is faster, it doesn't read in the whole 
file unless necessary, it is easier to use in batch, the cursor movement 
is more sensible, macros can be written more compactly.

I've spent a large fraction of my life in EDT!  :-D

> 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.

Yes, Emacs exists for VMS, but why?  The only thing good about it is the 
EDT emulation on unix.  :-)  (However, it just emulates the keypad.)