[Info-vax] In praise of DEC's keypad power

[j...@ieee.org]

On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 1:14:19 PM UTC-6, Slo wrote:
> I'm surprised that in recent EDT discussions no one here 
> mentioned K52/KED, the editors I remember using on RSX-11, 
> around 1980. EDT and the rest must have evolved 
> from them - the mapping and functions are 100% identical. 
> ….

I was glad to have EDT/KED across RT-11, RSX, VMS as a common but capable editor.   This covered about 80% of my editing. on these platforms using the Keypad and the modeless approach. Teco filled my needs for a tool for more sophisticated text manipulation.   On Unix machines, I often used Emacs with the EDT emulation. 

The muscle memory turned out to be strong to this day.  I found myself wanting the same editing tool for Mac and Linux platforms.  Mike Rieker's EDT implementation is quite good and I now use it regularly.