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From: dboyes@uoregon.uoregon.edu (David Boyes)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Wanted SIMPLE editor and Re: Mail Editor
Message-ID: <2425@uoregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 88 08:02:25 GMT
References: <12129@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4452@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU>
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In article <4452@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU> spectre@mit-vax.UUCP (Joseph D. Morrison) writes:

>I believe the standard editor that comes with VMS meets these
>requirements; it's called EDT, and it's supposed to be intuitive, easy
>to use, etc.

Oh, please. Not EDT. ANYTHING but EDT. Besides, EDT is a VMS-only product.

Another problem with EDT is that it depends heavily on the VT100
keypad, something which a lot of microcomputer based terminal
emulators (MacTerminal and RedRyder leap immediately to mind) make
very difficult to use, so you get really baroque command sequences to
get simple things done.

The biggest minus of EDT that I've found is that it often doesn't
sense the terminal type properly ( this may be a VMS problem -- I
don't know) on non-DEC ANSI terminals and goes into line mode, a
"feature" which I find unacceptable.

I'm not trying to start an editor war. Please do not flame on that
basis.

>If EDT is too hard to get a hold of, GNU emacs has an EDT mode that
>works fairly well; and that might in fact be just what you need,
>because it ought to be easy to interface with MH...

GNU is probably overkill for just a simple mail editor. Heck, if
you're going to use GNU, you might as well use the GNU mail mode
instead of anything else.


>        Joe Morrison
>MIT Laboratory for Computer Science     UUCP: ...!mit-eddie!vx!spectre
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