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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/9/2021 12:42 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

Yes.

But when it was loaded it was fast to go to the bottom unlike EDT
where it could take forever to.

Arne