[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/16/16 10:38 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>  <VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>> In article <F+hM4zRm1Lwb at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>> In article <o0hkks$e45$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> For fuck sake how hard would it be to port Notepad++ to VMS?
>>>>
>>>
>>>   Why would anyone want to work on porting that worthless P.O.S.
>>>   to any platform?
>>
>> I believe Richard was being facetious.
>
> It would be nice to ship a quick and dirty simple editor with VMS, and it
> likely would be an afternoon's work to write something for novice users that
> would be a lot better than Notepad.
> --scott
>

Pico.  VIM. (I think that's already available) MicroEmacs.

Guess it depends  on what you like in an editor.  I've used
these three and they are fine for simple editing tasks. I
think MicroEmacs had a VMS version, but that would have been
ages ago.

bill