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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-19, alanfe... at gmail.com <alanfeldman48 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 scanned this entire thread for your posts and do not see either of the above. 
> Please re-post. 
>

>From my original posting:

You define them in your EVE initialisation file. Some examples:

define key= gold/d wps gold-|
define key= gold/r wps gold-r
define key=gold-left shift left 16
define key=gold-right shift right 16

>> 
>> 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 couldn't find this one, either. Please post the answer. But the answer appears to be "no".
>

I can't remember what they wrote, but Gold-PF2 gives a list of key
definitions for me.

>
> I'm beginning to get the impression you don't think much of EDT. (!)  (~_^)
>

By today's standards, no I don't. It was good by 1980s standards,
but not by today's standards.

Even back when I switched from RSTS/E to VAX/VMS, I switched from
EDT to EVE within half a day of first trying EVE because EVE was
immediately obviously so superior to me.

I do like the EDT keypad however and I continue to use that in EVE
and emacs because it's so much easier to work with than
Ctrl-{this, that and the other} for routine navigation tasks.

Simon.

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