rkl@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (09/14/88)
In article <2112@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>, phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes: > Oops - my previous message didn't include my signature. Give me EDT in > preference to TPU any day (that was Vax talk by the way..) Boing ! I disagree ! EDT is s---l---o---w and doesn't inform you if any changes have been made if you type quit at the * prompt. Give ME TPU (TED that is) any day over EDT. Richard K. Lloyd, **** This is a MicroVAX II running VAX/VMS V4.7 **** Computer Science Dept., * JANET : RKL@UK.AC.LIV.CS.MVA or * Liverpool University, * RKL@000010500211.FTP.MAIL * Merseyside, England, * Internet : RKL%mva.cs.liv.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu * Great Britain. **************************************************** "What's the world's fastest microcomputer ? A Mac II at 5000 pounds ? A 25Mhz Compaq 386 at 5500 pounds ? No, it's an Archimedes at 800 pounds !"
sam@gtisqr.UUCP (Sam Felton) (09/23/88)
In article <2115@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>, rkl@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes: > In article <2112@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>, phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes: > > Oops - my previous message didn't include my signature. Give me EDT in > > preference to TPU any day (that was Vax talk by the way..) > > Boing ! I disagree ! EDT is s---l---o---w and doesn't inform you if any > changes have been made if you type quit at the * prompt. Give ME TPU (TED > that is) any day over EDT. Agreed! The TPU facility is _definitely_ a major improvement over EDT. It allows you to virtually write your own editor, or add extensions with ease. The pattern-matching routines are fast, flexible, and easy to use. Best of all, it can handle almost any file organization that you can create with RMS -- a definite plus. The only other editor that I've personally seen that compares is emacs, and it is very large (code-size wize). I'll NEVER go back to EDT. --SAM--
peirce@claris.UUCP (Michael Peirce) (09/27/88)
In article <453@gt-ford.gtisqr.UUCP> sam@gtisqr.UUCP (Sam Felton) writes: >In article <2115@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>, rkl@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes: >> In article <2112@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>, phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes: >> >Agreed! The TPU facility is _definitely_ a major improvement over EDT. It >allows you to virtually write your own editor, or add extensions with ease. > >The only other editor that I've personally seen >that compares is emacs, and it is very large (code-size wize). > (Although this has NOTHING to do with Macs...) The reason TPU compares (arguably) well to EMACS might just be the fact that the same people who brought us TPU also worked on DEC's internal version on EMACS. (Only now are most of DEC's engineers slowly giving up EMACS in favor to TPU [Eve and especially LSE]). -- michael (XDECie) (I just wish the MPW Editor had 1/10 the programmability of EMACS or TPU!)