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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-09, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <smbq3b$o9$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>On 2021-11-08, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>>> In article <b6c4a416-0ccf-4518-b5fa-039d8d23f88cn at googlegroups.com>,
>>>=?UTF-8?Q?Lawrence_D=E2=80=99Oliveiro?= <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Monday, November 8, 2021 at 6:27:48 PM UTC+13, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> > 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.
>
> Where is the list of *today's standards* for editors?
>

Some examples are:

Multiple buffers showing in multiple windows on the screen.

A programming language for the editor so you can write extensions
and add additional functionality in general.

Brace and bracket matching.

Lots of editing utility and other built-in functions.

Language modes for those who use them (I don't, except in special cases).

Simon.

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