[Info-vax] EDTINI.EDT Issues

[Paul Richards]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> Den 2016-06-27 kl. 11:57, skrev Paul Richards:
> > TonyMcG wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Paul,
> > > 
> > > I presume you meant that you're defining the EDTINI logical in
> > > your LOGIN.COM, which is pointing to your EDTINI.EDT file.  When
> > > you enter a command like:  $ EDIT NESTTEST.COB
> > > with no qualifiers then you're starting the EVE (TPU) editor, not
> > > the classic EDT variation, i.e. it defaults to $ EDIT/TPU, not $
> > > EDIT/EDT
> > > 
> > > SET RIGHT MARGIN 72 is a valid EVE command, invalid for EDT.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> >>  Tony
> >>  also from Melbourne, Australia.
> > 
> > Tony: OK, so I'm running EVE (TPU) when I enter EDIT. I didn't know
> > that.
> 
> TPU is the default editor if you havn't redefined EDIT.
> 
> You can create an alternative symbol for "EDIT" in your
> LOGIN.COM and that might redefine "EDIT" as "EDIT/EDT...".
> 
> I usualy have something like:
> 
> $ E :== "EDIT/EDT"
> 
> or:
> 
> $ E :== "EDIT/EDTT/COMMAND=sys$login:EDTINI.EDT"
> 
> "E" is less to type than "EDIT".
> 
> > However all of the commands I entered in EDTINI.EDT came from the
> > HELP section of EVE/EDT/TPU so why were they rejected as invalid?
> 
> EDT and TPU has separate HELP sections and help texts. Hard to
> comment when we do not know what you have read.
> 
> It might very well be that your EDTINI.EDT file is just fine,
> but you do not start EDT. We need to know what ou actually
> put into your LOGIN.COM file.
> 
> Better to actually show what you did then trying with
> descriptions that might be based on misunderstadings.

Jan-Erik: It appears that I want EVE so creating an EVE$INIT.EVE file
containing function key definitions has solved my problem, Thanks for
responding.

-- 
Paul
Melbourne, Australia

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