[Info-vax] JED on OpenVMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-14, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
>
>    I could never see a reason for installing an EDT emulator on the OS
>    that EDT was born on.  EDT emulators runnning on other OS do a poor
>    enough job already.
>

I thought EDT started life on the PDP-11 and not VMS.

BTW, VMS already has an EDT emulator - it's called EVE and does a better
job than EDT does (>24 lines screen height, multiple buffers on screen at
the same time, etc).

Emacs in EDT keypad mode is my standard Linux editor and with a good
emulator (PuTTY or xterm with keyboard mapping) works just fine for me.
I can switch seamlessly between Emacs on Linux and EVE on VMS without
having to use a different keypad mapping layout.

>    And without a DEC keyboard and damn good VT emulation, it just gets
>    messier.
>

A full PC keyboard is close enough to be able to use the EDT keypad.
The only thing you miss is delete word and that is something I have
not missed in the last 15 years of only using PC keyboards.

You do need an excellent VT emulator however and many of the various
open source ones simply are not good enough.

Simon.

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