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

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 1:31:19 PM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/8/2021 3:30 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: 
>> On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 7:53:04 AM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj 
>> wrote: 
>>
>>> EVE is mostly a super set of EDT functionality wise ... 
>> 
>> Except it was never saddled with anything so clunky as a “current 
>> direction” mode ...
>>
> ???? 
> 
> EVE has direction.

When I used it, it did not. It had separate commands for movement in forward versus backward directions. Just like any other editor -- except EDT.

>> But then, Emacs is not an IDE. IDEs limit you to using their 
>> particular build systems, while Emacs doesn’t care what build system 
>> you want to use: whatever the command is to launch a build, you can 
>> bind it to a single custom keystroke.
>>
> ???? 
> 
> Eclipse for Java supports its own build but also ant, maven and gradle. 

So you have a choice of a Java-based build system, a build system based on Java, or even a Java-building system for building Java programs!

What was that joke from “The Blues Brothers”, about offering both kinds of music, Country and Western?