[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-11-20, Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy at gfsys.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Lots of concurrent windows open here (on a Mac), and the GUI editors I
use allow me to open multiple files per window, and multiple windows.

At least one of those editors (non-free) allows the opening of files on
a project basis.

> 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...

There was a version of nedit floating around which worked on Alpha VMS
V7.3.  A colleague who was then new to VMS (and still in his twenties)
wanted such an editor back in 2002.

> 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...

I still haven't found any other editor which allows you to move to the
start or end of the next/previous line like EDT or EVE with a single
keystroke.  I really do miss that functionality.

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