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From: dave@wsccs.UUCP (VAX Headroom @ The End of the Galaxy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Opinion. TPU, EDT
Summary: EDT IS very well emulated in lsedit
Message-ID: <130@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 02:57:30 GMT
References: <8802051623.AA17951@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <8802051623.AA17951@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, SCHOMAKE@HNYKUN53.BITNET (Lambert Schomaker) writes:
> The following message shows, once again, there is something wrong
> with TPU
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...
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> It looks like we have reached a stage where you can only speak of _changes_
> in software instead of _improvements_. As long as there is no good EDT
> emulator written in TPU, provided and supported by DEC, with multiple windows
> as _additional_ functionality, I will still be using the old EDT.
> 
> However, I do not doubt the power of TPU as a text processing language, but I
> I would be very dissappointed in DEC if EDT (i.e., the full functionality
> of EDT) is going to be dropped in VMS V5.x.
 
 Here at WSC Computer Science we use the LSEDIT (Language Sensitive) editor.
 I believe this editor is written in tpu, though I am not sure about this.
 It certainly provides all the capabilities of TPU.  It also emulates
 EDT very well (you can also get EVE emulation), plus it provides many
 new features.  It (along with TPU) is
 also much more efficient than EDT.

 As for EDT dying in 5.0, I dont know if they will actually drop it, but
 they say in the 4.6-4.7 release notes that they are going to fix EVE
 to look a lot more like EDT.  I would like to know what they are planning
 to do with the LIB$EDIT system service if they drop EDT, perhaps they will
 alter EVE such that it can be called in exactly the same way through
 LIB$EDIT.

 If you work in a programming environment I highly recommend LSEDIT.


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