From: LESLIE@JRLVAX.HOUSTON.RR.COM
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 10:56 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: My conversation with Linus about VMS ...

Atlant Schmidt (atlantnospam@mindspring.com) wrote:
: 
: EDT (as customized by me) remains my absolutely
: favorite editor, so when I made the switch from VMS
: to Solaris, you'd think I would have naturally fallen
: into the Emacs/XEmacs camp. 
:
There are EDT clones for non-VMS platforms, such as ED; from:

   http://clio.rice.edu/EDstuff/ED_Overview.txt

  "ED is an EDT look-alike editor that is portable to many platforms. 
   If you use EMACS, you'll probably hate it, but it does have some 
   nice features.

   ED will:

   o  Let you edit files on other hosts, if you are connected to 
      the Internet.
   o  Display many files on the screen simultaneously.
   o  Save key definitions and other editor settings on command.
   o  Let you mark your spot in a file, and return to it easily.
   o  Let you put tab stops wherever you want them.
   o  Let you use wildcards in search strings.
   o  Let you redefine the keys on your terminal.
   o  Let you say things like: ED *.dat, if you want to edit all .dat files.
   o  Allow you to teach it how to talk to different terminals.
   o  Calculate the value of algebraic expressions that include math 
      functions.
   o  Sort a file or a portion of a file.
   o  Let you read the network news.

   ED is free software, see the file COPYING for details..."

ED can also edit very long (>> 255 characters) lines.

ED is available for Win32, from a DOS box, OS/2, VMS, and most dialects
of unix: AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64.

I'm using it as the editor for the VMS version of 'tin' to write this
post.

--Jerry Leslie   leslie@clio.rice.edu  (my opinions are strictly my own)
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