Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ptsfa!well!msudoc!edstb!ahxenix!spiros From: spiros@ahxenix.REL.COM (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: edt or vi? Message-ID: <304@ahxenix.REL.COM> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 23:52:29 EST Article-I.D.: ahxenix.304 Posted: Sun Jan 11 23:52:29 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 23:38:38 EST References: <241@tellab5.UUCP> <397@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> <10@hotlg.ATT> Organization: Auburn Hills Xenix BBS Lines: 17 Keywords: EDT sucks Summary: TPU, intelligence, pain in the neck TPU does expect too much of terminals; I wrote an implementation of MicroEMACS on TPU (using lots of DEC's EVE code in the process) and an awfull long part (including interfacing TPU with "C" (horror story)) went into tweaking the terminal to accept some vms-forbidden control sequences. Then, the language does not have arrays (:-(), can not do vertical split windows, and some other annoyances. To its credit, TPU emacs is MUCH faster in scrolling/moving, and because of underlying code (i.e. TPU itself) is very robust. But... I switched to MicroEMACS 3.7i long ago... spiros -- Spiros Triantafyllopoulos spiros@ahxenix.uucp