[Info-vax] VT keyboard replacement

[Chris Townley]

On 09/11/2021 13:32, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/9/2021 5:01 AM, 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.
> 
> I am pretty sure that emacs did run (not well but) text mode on VMS
> late 80's.
> 
> I recall having to first run it once to compile all the Lisp stuff,
> dump it to a disk file and then startup on that.
> 
> Anybody else remember?
> 
> Arne

ISTR building emacs on VMS 6.2 on Alpha in  the 90s. Worked fine in text 
mode (as it did on HP Unix) but I declined to use it, as EVE was much 
better. LSE even better!

On Unix used either vi for simple edits, or a PC editor over SMB. 
Sometimes I would use EVE or LSE over NFS

-- 
Chris