[HECnet] [Simh] Emacs-clone for RSX?

Paul_Koning at Dell.com Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Tue May 31 08:33:28 PDT 2016


> On May 31, 2016, at 11:22 AM, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 06:10:41PM +0300, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>> Why don???t one of you RSX gurus port ???joe??? to RSX?
>> OK it???s not emacs but it???s quite small and has enough functionality..
> 
> I'm thinking the point isn't:  if only there were a nice editor, any
> editor, that fits on RSX (those of us who grew up on EDT generally *love*
> it already, and TECO is its own religion), but rather to accommodate
> people's muscle memory and accept the commands they were already going to
> type whether they meant to or not (which is why E11's built-in editor goes
> in the other direction and uses the EDT/KED keypad layout).

If you want the Emacs screen editing user interface, as opposed to all its elisp-based commands, then this seems to amount to a tweaked vtedit.tec...

	paul



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