[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-11-21 kl. 14:32, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2016-11-19, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Chris wrote:
>>> On 11/17/16 22:22, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> jEdit FTP and VMS also seems to work OK.
>>>>
>>>> Arne
>>>>
>>>
>>> I used to love using edt, but you do need the lk ketboard layout to
>>> get the best from it. Notepad++ is pretty good for a modern editor,
>>> but i'm still using nedit, which has been around for years and uses
>>> the motif library, which vms may already have. Both notepad++ and
>>> nedit support rectangular cut and paste, which I would find very
>>> difficult not to have available now...
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Built right into that machine in front of you in the form of EVE.
>
> Doing the following in EVE on the above message:
>
> 1) "box select"
> 2) select the area
> 3) "box copy"
> 4) insert
>
> gives this:
>
> edt, but you
>  Notepad++ i
> edit, which
> ich vms may
> ular cut and
>
> Simon.
>

I can do that in Putty no matter what editor i used.