[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Chris]

On 11/20/16 00:57, David Froble wrote:

>
> Now that alone has me thinking about looking at such an editor. Things
> such as cutting a name and address out of a screen to make a shipping
> label would be quite helpful.

There are some things which are more convenient and made possible
within a graphical environment. Having said that, the only things I
normally have onscreen are 3 or 4 terminal sessions, editor and emmail
client.

Nedit has been around for years though and had all the features that
have since become standard expectations for a programmer's editor,
while still being fairly minimalist. It builds out of the box on any
unix or linux system i've tried it on and full sources are available,
so it may be not too much of a task to port to VMS...

In the end, choice of editor  depends on what works for you. EDT cut
and paste was pretty good, but a gui environment seems more intuitive...

Chris