[Info-vax] VT keyboard replacement

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 09 Nov 2021 02:01:52 -0800, Slo wrote:

>> >> On VMS?
>> > No.
>> > Unless you want to revive my proposal for how to implement a
>> > VMS-compatible layer on top of Linux ...
>> The question was about how raw terminal input is done on VMS.
>> Or perhaps you didn't read that bit.
> In my DEC days, we were using VMS workstations and EDT/EVE/LSE, but
> somebody switched to Emacs and raved about it. But it ran in DECwindows
> GUI, not on VTs. That's why I never switched to it -- on VMS. It may be
> fun to do it on Windows/Linux, but, as they say, you learn only 1.01
> editors in your life, so I would never be as productive as I am now.

I agree! I learned 'ed' on UNIX in 1975. Used variants of that for years, 
but got a small EMACS clone that came with my first PC. Still using 
EMACS...



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