Speed of text editors on 808x platform

All this talk of editors on PCs got me to thinking of my favorite: PC-EDT It was a clone of the EDT used under RSX-11(-M). Pretty faithful as well. It had problems with the keypad, being that the '+' took up two key spaces (as opposed to the standard VT-100 keypad), but overall it was nice. It even worked on old XT's and scrolled pretty fast. If you happened to do large Cut/Pastes it took some time as it swapped out the buffers to temp disk files. I still use the editor to this day after first using it in the 80's. The old keypad layout is pretty ingrained in my mind. EDT (on RSX-11) was my first screen editor, so I guess you get used to your 'first'. Unfortunately, vi seems everywhere, and as everyone knows knowledge of vi is almost mandatory for any person using Unix (Linux) (even today). Thankfully I haven't succumbed to emacs (and hopefully never will, even as the spell checker wants to capitalize the first letter!). -- Tom Watson tsw at johana.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail