[Info-vax] improving EDT

Paul Sture nospam at sture.ch
Tue Nov 22 01:32:15 EST 2016


On 2016-11-21, hb <end.of at inter.net> wrote:
> On 11/21/2016 12:25 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If I have to use a text based editor I use JED (in Xterm, on VMS or on
> Linux), which gives me exactly what you are looking for.

Thanks.  I've deliberately avoided JED on my Mac because of its Java
dependency (Keep It Simple philosophy - don't install it where it's not
needed), but nowadays I have adequate *nix instances where that's not a
problem.

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