[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Scott Dorsey]

David Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>
>> But, we are only talkning about giving (new) programmers
>> on VMS a decent environment to work in. I do not understand
>> why you drag clouds and all that stuff into the picture.
>> 
>> I do not understand your post. Are you saying that editing code in
>> EDT/TPU is "better" then editing code in one of todays popular IDE's?
>
>Ok, let me try explaining this way.
>
>Does any of these "new" "wizz-bang" methods have enough advantage for me to 
>forget using EDT, which I pretty much got down to "muscle memory", and spend 
>effort (don't know how much) learning something new?

Yes.  But likely what YOU want is an integrated development environment that
continues to use EDT key sequences.

The IDE makes code debugging a whole lot easier, in part because you can
see more at the same time than you can looking through a little 80x24 
windows.  But there's no reason there shouldn't be an IDE with keymappings
and maybe some key commands for existing VMS users.
--scott

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