[Info-vax] EDIT wierdness with OpenVMS 9.2 on x86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/18/2023 10:41 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-04-18 at 10:25 -0400, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> I have edited various configuration files with EDIT on OpenVMS 9.2
>>> x86 a few times. Each time I edit one of these files, EDIT appears
>>> to delete the first word on the first line when it opens the file
>>> on my terminal! I can fix it by putting that back in before saving
>>> but it's just annoying.
>>>
>>
>> Which editor?  EDT?  Others?
>>
>> If EDT, is there an EDTINI file?
> 
> The default editor on the system which happens to be EDIT. No
> qualifiers supplied except the file name. I wasn't aware there was an
> EDTINI file, I'll have to look on the VSI wiki.

Once upon a time EDT was default.

But EVE has been default for quite some time by now.

It is of course possible to have $ EDIT :== EDIT/EDT and I
expect several old VMS'ers to have so.

But EDT and no EDTINI does not sound likely. EDT start up
in line mode. Practically all EDT users will have an
EDTINI with SET MODE CHANGE.

If not I consider them really hard core. Line mode editing
in 2023 is extreme.

Arne