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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/18/2021 5:44 PM, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, November 8, 2021 at 1:25:50 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Depends on the task. Use the right tool for the job. Don't hire a robot to open a jar.

Right tool for the job is always good.

But EVE and EDT are very close in what types of task they are designed 
to do.

I can only think of a few technical reasons to prefer EDT over EVE for
an editing task: ability to run in very little memory and ability to
run line mode. Neither is very likely to be relevant today.

The main reason for EDT use is that a significant portion of VMS people
know EDT better than EVE. EDT works and even though EVE could do
the work as well, then they do not have a need for any of the extra
capabilities offered by EVE so it does not make sense for them to
switch.

Arne