[Info-vax] EDTINI.EDT Issues

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In article <nku19p$q87$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>On 2016-06-28 03:19:36 +0000, Paul Richards said:
>
>> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Stephen: thanks you for the reply. Believe me, I have the various 
>> OpenVMS HTNL documents permanently set up in tabs in my browser.
>
>Download the PDFs.  (HPE has been shuffling their web site around for a 
>while, and HPE is also getting out of the OpenVMS business per their 
>roadmap save possibly as a reseller of VSI.)   Then read the User's 
>Manual.  Then read the programming concepts and/or the system managers 
>manuals.
>
>> So if EDT is deprecated and I want to use EVE/TPU is there a mechanism 
>> (similar to EDTINI.EDT) for passing things like function key 
>> definitions into EDIt/EVE/TPU?
>
>Yes.   Please read the EVE manual.  Please also see the PuTTY docs and 
>FAQs and articles around the 'net for the PC to VT keyboard mappings, 
>as support for remapping keys is not universal within applications.
>
>>> EVE is the name of a text editor on OpenVMS, not a document type or 
>>> document format.
>> 
>> I realise that. What I meant was that the document makes reference to 
>> EVE. Now it also mentions an EVE$INIT.EVE file - maybe this is what I'm 
>> looking for (answering my own question) and I should create this file
>> and put my definitions into it.
>
>EVE and EDT are *not* like peanut butter and chocolate, nor 
>stroopwafels and Nutella, nor New England clam chowder and tabasco, 
>or...  The two editors don't mix.  Commands for one don't work with the 
>other.

Gotta disagree with you there, Steve. 

New England clam chowder and Outerbridge's Sherry Pepper Sauce!

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