[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <q00oic$efs$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> I agree. I've been using the EDT keypad in both EVE and emacs for
> at least 15 years exclusively on a PC keyboard and it works just fine.
> The only key missing is delete word and I never used that even on a
> DEC keyboard.

People blind from birth usually don't notice anything wrong.  :-)  And 
it's not just EDT: it is MAIL, it is the debugger, it is NEWSRDR, and so 
on.

> Do you have _any_ idea just how utterly dated your comments make you
> sound ? You sound like the VMS version of a mainframe programmer
> lamenting the loss of punched cards as a standard input mechanism.

Just because something is old doesn't mean that it is not good.  I 
prefer the Beatles to Miley Cyrus.  :-)

> The PC keyboard gives you everything except delete word and I don't
> miss that one little bit. Do you have _any_ idea what you can do in
> an editor like emacs when compared to EDT ?

I'm familiar with Emacs.  At least it has EDT emulation (but only the 
keypad, which is just a small part of EDT).

> > So Phillip, what are your suggested solutions.  First, you wish VSI to 
> > provide a GUI with VMS. 

I never said a GUI, just CDE, which they will support anyway via 
on-board graphics.  Don't confuse DECwindows with a browser with a GUI.