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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/8/2021 1:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-11-08, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> In article <b6c4a416-0ccf-4518-b5fa-039d8d23f88cn at googlegroups.com>,
>> =?UTF-8?Q?Lawrence_D=E2=80=99Oliveiro?= <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Monday, November 8, 2021 at 6:27:48 PM UTC+13, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> It is the most efficient, not the most powerful. :-)
>>>
>>> As in helping you to be the most productive?
>>
>> Exactly.
> 
> How exactly ?
> 
> By today's standards, EDT's limited functionality makes it the
> assembly language version of editors when compared to other editors
> which are fully featured editors.
> 
> EDT can't even show more than one window on the screen at the same
> time. How does that make EDT the most productive editor ?
> 
> Even EVE can do that, which makes even EVE much more productive than EDT.

EVE is mostly a super set of EDT functionality wise and EVE supports EDT
key mapping, so I don't see EDT as being more productive.

EDT probably use less memory than EVE. I suspect that EDT can do with
like 25-50 KB and EVE may require like 100-250 KB. But since memory
is bought by the GB today, then that is hardly an issue.

(note that a modern IDE requires like 256 MB - 2 GB of memory)

Arne