[Info-vax] EDTINI.EDT Issues

[John Reagan]

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 10:23:57 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> 
> Unfortunately, OpenVMS lacks a dumb-as-a-post keyboard-only editor such 
> as nano or pico, so there's not a good basic editor.  Yes, some folks 
> will cite EDT for that, but editors such as nano and pico put the core 
> commands on the display, and don't encourage nor require the use of the 
> LK-series keypad, which means entirely avoiding the case where the 
> end-user either lacks the keypad, or has to determine the particular 
> mapping for the particular hardware environment or terminal emulator 
> involved.
> 

Well, since I started using EDT on an LA120, I know it works without a screen.  And without the screen, I never touched the keypad.  I didn't know EDT had a screen mode until my employer bought us VT100s.  Line-mode EDT isn't much different than 'ed' on my Linux box.