[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-06-25, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <1f7121c1-17ec-4541-bc12-f795dafd8236 at googlegroups.com>,
> lawrencedo99 at gmail.com writes: 
>> 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.)
>

Why Emacs over EDT:

1) It supports screens larger than 24 lines high.

2) You can have multiple buffers on the screen at the same time.

3) You can edit large files with arbitary record lengths.

4) You can do things like tabify and brace matching.

Why EDT over Emacs:

1) You can use it on an ASR-33.

2) [I give up. :-) There is no 2)]

Simon.

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