Eaton.HFED%hi-multics@sri-unix.UUCP (03/25/84)
I have been using VEDIT 1.37 for about a year now and just love it. I got a chance to rummage through the manual on v1.38 today and was really amazed by the number of improvements that have been made. Some of those that I can remember are: 1. Horizontal scrolling 2. Help file 3. Arithmetic registers (add/sub only, for now) 4. Ret vs. esc,esc to end command mode 5. Default to text reg 0 on return 6. Quit but stay in editor 7. Expanded search/replace 8. Default disk/user for help and ini files 9. Keyboard map 10. Expanded command set 11. Bit 7 handling (Wordstar too) 12. Output file name on status line For those of you who haven't used or seen VEDIT it comes highly recommended. It is the best darned editor for writing programs that I have used. It has limited although serviceable use as a word processor. As a program editor it runs rings around it's competition. I don't know if they updated those lousy installation procedures but here's hoping they did. You have to know quite a bit about your terminal if you want to do a really custom version. Otherwise you can use one of their "terminal in a can" routines. Jesse (who once used ed) Eaton.HFED@HI-MULTICS