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From: jerry@altos86.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi (vs VMS/EDT)
Keywords: DEC bashing
Message-ID: <3@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 17:43:13 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.223604.17418@cs.eur.nl>
Reply-To: jerry@altos86.UUCP (Jerry Gardner)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <1989Nov14.223604.17418@cs.eur.nl> henk@cs.eur.nl (Henk Langeveld) writes:
>mikulska@odin.ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska) writes:
>
>>> EDT and LSE were one of the easier things to pick up when I
>>>did a VAX/VMS project awhile ago ...
>
>>I had to use VAX/VMS and EDT some time ago. EDT was extremely confusing
>>for me after I had gotten used to vi.
>
>And consider the case when you haven't got a DEC-compatible terminal,
>without function keys ?


Dec's EDT was written specifically for Dec terminals, starting with the
VT52 and later the VT10X and VT2XX series.  Unless a clone terminal
exactly duplicates the Dec keyboard layout, EDT will be very difficult to
use.

I've used a lot of editors over the years, including Teco, Emacs, vi, and
EDT.  When used on a Dec (or a clone with a Dec keyboard layout), EDT just
can't be beat.  I can edit just about anything faster and easier with the
EDT/VT220 combination than with any other editor.  I begin to suffer
withdrawl when I have to use vi or Emacs on a Unix system.



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