From: "Jerome H. Fine" <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to>
As for EDT, I have heard of it, but never found any details. Is there
a LINK you can provide to a manual for EDT? Briefly, what
additional features did EDT support over KED? If there were so
many extra features, please pick just 3 or even 2 from EDT that you
especially found to be so much of an improvement over KED?
I only ever learned to use about 1% of EDT and it was already way more
than KED. I think the turning point for EDT was V2.0 (which I think was
where it started to smell more like KED). The craziest thing is that it's
four editors (that I know of) in one:
(a) "change" mode with keypad enabled -- the KED-like mode that
most people actually use.
(b) "change" mode with NOKEYPAD -- which is not modeless, so it's
about as annoying as "vi" on Unix (e.g. "itext$" to insert
text,
instead of just typing text), but naturally not compatible with
it or anything else.
(c) "change" mode on a hardcopy terminal -- kinky!!! maybe a
little more TECO-like, minus the power (so I guess maybe it's
more EDIT.SAV-like then?).
(d) line mode -- which is like pretty much any other line editor.
Besides that, EDT has a near-infinite number of features. Multiple
buffers are certainly a huge one. And yet, no LOCAL -- KED's greatest
single features!
John Wilson
D Bit