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

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 1:39:07 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-11-17, alanfe... at gmail.com <alanfe... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > Can your favorite editor let you define keys without compiling a huge 
> > section file? Can you easily look up what any given key combo does? Esp. 
> > when done by learn mode? Just asking. 
> >
> I have already answered your first question (answer is yes) and posted 
> EVE examples for you to try. 

I just searched the entire thread again and I do not see any such post. Maybe Google Groups doesn't have it. Can you please re-post?

> 
> Someone else has already answered your second question. I don't know if 
> that includes learn sequences, but I have _never_ needed to see the learn 
> sequence that I have just entered as I don't care about it after the end 
> of the current session. 

I have.

> 
> BTW, EVE isn't my favourite editor. It's just that its a lot more powerful 
> and productive to use on VMS than trying to use EDT. Emacs is an even more 
> powerful editor however.
> Simon. 

Again, I am a lowly ex-physicist who worked at jobs where my knowledge of VMS was of use. I am not a professional coder. I have BBEdit on my Mac at home. Even its free version appears to have a bazillion features I'll never use.

> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
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AEF