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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <smbq3b$o9$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> >> > 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.

Even on really fast hardware, I am always annoyed with how slow the 
cursor movement is with EVE.  And then it reads in the whole huge file 
even if I just want to edit the first few lines.