[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/17/2016 6:03 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

IDE for serious development.

But probably also a general purpose editor for casual development
and system manager tasks.

> 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.

Most IDE's allow customizing key mappings.

But it will not solve the learning curve problem as a modern
IDE does not have a 1:1 mapping to EDT.

Arne