[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 11:19:27 PM UTC+13, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, October 25, 2021 at 10:48:26 PM UTC-4, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: 
>> On Monday, October 25, 2021 at 5:28:47 PM UTC+13, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote: 
>>> When was EDT updated to allow more than 22 lines? IDK, but it's made me happy! 
>> “EDT” and “happy” were never words I considered using in the same sentence ...
> I understand. Use the right tool for the job, I say. For me that is usually EDT. 

What drove me mad about EDT was its insistence on a “current direction” mode. Instead of having separate movement commands for going forward and backward by word, line etc, it had a single command for each, with separate “forward” and “backward” keys for setting the direction.

But since I could never remember what was the last direction key I hit, I would always have to hit it again, so every movement command became *two* keystrokes instead of one.

> One thing I really like about EDT is the key definitions. You can see them and change
> them without needing to recompile and make a new huge TPU section file ...

Emacs does all that, and more. It also has the advantage of being built on LISP, which is still one of the most advanced programming languages around.