[net.micro] An editor that emulates EDT?? Icky ....

jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) (10/17/85)

In article <460@isucs1.UUCP> notes@isucs1.UUCP writes:
> Another alternative is to get a text editor that emulates EDT.

Emulate EDT?  You mean that editor that redraws the screen whenever
you look at it the wrong way?  The one with no pattern matching (that
I could find)?  The one that, if you exit, always writes a new
version of your file, whether or not you've changed it, while if you
quit, throws any all your changes with nary a whimper?  The one that
"recovers" your changes after your line drops by letting you watch
everything you did during the session happen all over again?

Good idea.

(My guess is that the people at DEC that "develop" and "maintain" EDT
use a different editor.)

Actually, the DEC software folks must use hard-wired 19.2kbaud lines.
Witness the PHONE program (talk to UNIX types) that scrolls regions
of the screen by erasing and re-writing each line of the screen, rather
than setting a terminal scrolling region ...

Sorry - I'll go back to my cage now ...