[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-11-20, 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...
>>
>
> 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.

Also useful for swapping table columns.

And of course porting programs to and from Cobol, where

    move  a to b.

might become

    b = a

or similar.

--
You’ll find COBOL an easy language to learn and a FAR EASIER language to
master than many of the "modern" languages.
                                        -- GNU COBOL Programmer’s Guide