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

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Yes, EDT was the first VMS supplied editor running on x86, in June 2020.
 Micro emacs ran on x86 in October 2019.

FWIW, JED, another also not so popular editor available for VMS, was
ported to x86 in August 2020: yeah, some people find syntax coloring for
DCL procedures useful. And Emacs 21.2, a somehow more popular editor
available for VMS, was just cross-compiled for x86. It seems to work,
but it's not yet ready for use.

On 11/22/21 4:19 AM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> On 11/21/2021 4:32 AM, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> BTW, why did it take so long for someone to fix the hard-coded 22-line
>> limit on EDT? How long could it have taken? Well, I'm very happy about
>> it now!
> 
> That "someone" is myself.  As to why did it "take so long", EDT was
> considered obsolete for decades. Nobody was actively maintaining it. I
> just recently posted some comments about fixing it. It was an unofficial
> fix, I just did it one day. But EDT fans may be happy to know that EDT
> was the first editor to run on x86. I forget why EVE/TPU took longer, it
> may have been a compiler bug that affected it but not EDT. A different
> problem prevented EDT from working out of the box however.