[Info-vax] improving EDT

[hb]

On 11/17/2016 11:32 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/17/2016 3:58 PM, hb wrote:
>> On 11/17/2016 09:15 PM, IanD wrote:
>>> I once suggested enhancements to TPU to fix a number of the little
>>> things, like box editing highlighting and undo and was shot down for
>>> the suggestion of spending effort on niech products in the grand
>>> scheme of things, on reflection of that feedback, I concluded they
>>> were right, it's time to drag OpenVMS forward and embrace new stuff,
>>> stuff that has only got better over time while OpenVMS froze itself
>>> in time
>>
>> Maybe not for the new kids, as it is text based: Have you looked at JED?
>> It runs on VMS, it has box editing, highlighting and undo. There is an
>> EDT keypad mode, there is a DCL, Linker options file, MMS/MMK and a VMS
>> system parameter mode as well as syntax highlighting for Bliss and
>> Macro32.
> 
> That sounds pretty good.
> 
>> For the new kids preferring Eclipse, there is a plugin for
>> DCL/MMS/Linker options file as well.
> 
> Got a link?

For JED: http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
For additional JED modes: http://www.vms2linux.de/jedmodes.html, the MMK
mode: https://github.com/endlesssoftware/mmk/issues/89
For the Eclipse plugin: http://www.vms2linux.de/vms-plugins-eclipse.html