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

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On Monday, November 8, 2021 at 1:25:50 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-11-08, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <hel... at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote: 
> > In article <b6c4a416-0ccf-4518... at googlegroups.com>, 
> >=?UTF-8?Q?Lawrence_D=E2=80=99Oliveiro?= <lawren... 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. 
> 
> 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.

Not when you are compiling and it aborts at line 1. Not when you need SET NOTRUNCATE. 

Features and capabilities? On net, EVE wins. More productive? Depends what you want to do.

> Simon. 

AEF