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From: hughes@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (larry hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi (vs VMS/EDT)
Keywords: DEC bashing
Message-ID: <29752@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 89 22:43:32 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.223604.17418@cs.eur.nl>
Sender: root@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Reply-To: hughes@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (larry hughes)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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>>> 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 German was extremely confusing for me after I had gotten used
to English!

>And consider the case when you haven't got a DEC-compatible terminal,
>without function keys ?
>
>The *one* thing about vi that I really appreciate, is that I don't
>need any function keys, while life without them is hard at least
>on EDT/TPU/EVE.

But EDT and TPU are both completely programmable!  TPU even more
so than EDT.

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