[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Henry Crun]

On 18-Nov-2016 00:43, David Froble 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?
>
> Key words are "enough advantage" ....

+1
my fingers remember what to do in TPU/EDT/EVE, so much so that when I'm on a 
non-VMS system there's a double effort - I have to switch off automatic actions 
and reactions...

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