[Info-vax] Editors, was: Re: VT keyboard replacement

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sm9ugt$scb$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> On 2021-11-07, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> > In article <3dc63091-9f4e-4698-9932-09bdc98e030en at googlegroups.com>, Slo
> ><slovuj at gmail.com> writes: 
> >
> >> Some editors use Ctrl+T to delete the next word, great, but it's awkward
> >> - I need two hands for this - compared to a dedicated keypad key. 
> 
> I use the EDT keypad in emacs and find it much more quicker and easier
> than typing Ctrl-<this, that and the other>. :-)
> 
> >
> > Right.  EDT is by far the most efficient editor.  And it is much more 
> > than just the EDT keypad.
> >
> 
> How do you get EDT to show you where the starting brace in the
> current section of code you are working on is (for example) ?
> 
> How do you get EDT to convert spaces to tabs in your code ?
> (tabify in emacs, never checked to see if EVE can do it).
> 
> Can you do a rectangle select in EDT ?
> 
> Can you show more than one buffer on the screen at the same time
> in EDT ?
> 
> Does EDT support programming language editing modes ? (I tend not to
> use them, except for some special cases, but some people use them all
> the time).

It is the most efficient, not the most powerful.  :-)