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

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 3:58:22 PM UTC-5, Bob Eager wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:36:21 -0800, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote: 
> 
> >> How do you get EDT to show you where the starting brace in the current 
> >> section of code you are working on is (for example) ? 
> > 
> > Search backwards for a '{' ?
> It's a search for the *matching* { - which might be several back. Used 
> when you've left one out (usually a }) and you can't see where.

Well, you weren't specific enough.

I actually like Notepad++ for this. I had that at my last job. I have BBEdit now, and it does it too, but it's too quick. Well, I don't write code now or when I had Notepad++, but parentheses come up now and then and I can see it work during those exciting moments.

> >> Can you show more than one buffer on the screen at the same time in EDT 
> >> ? 
> > 
> > Sure. Open more terminal sessions on your workstation! Use your 
> > workstation's copy and paste! (~_^)
> But splitting the screen to show more than one buffer?

You missed the emoticon.

> >> Does EDT support programming language editing modes ? (I tend not to 
> >> use them, except for some special cases, but some people use them all 
> >> the time). 
> > 
> > I doubt it.
> It doesn't. 

Got it!  (^_^)  I was right!!!

Hey, the last programming I did was in graduate school c. 1985-1990. And it was FORTRAN. We didn't have no stinkin' braces!  (^_^) 

I've also done a lot of DCL over the years. And I had a multi-year hiatus from it. But I've returned to it to refresh my TO.COM program (command procedure), as the one on the freeware site is way out of date and the download link is broken, to boot. 

I did start working my way through a book on c during quiet moments at a previous job, but that was long ago!

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