[Info-vax] VT keyboard replacement

[Chris Townley]

On 07/11/2021 22:01, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 11:55:36 PM UTC+13, Slo wrote:
>> The beauty and elegance of the EDT family of editors is that DEL L, DEL W, DEL C, and
>> DEL SEL, all had their own buffers from which one could UNDELETE later, anywhere,
>> once, or <GOLD>N times.
> 
> Emacs already works this way. Text-deletion commands with “kill” in their name (e.g. kill-word, backward-kill-word, kill-line, kill-region) put the deleted text into the yank buffer, and CTRL/Y copies this text at the insertion point.
> 
> Basically, anything you might want to do, Emacs either already does it, or can be made to do it. ;)
> 

For anybody brought up on VMS Ctrl-Y is hardly the best to recover...

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Chris