Editor bindings [was RE: what was VMS/OpenVMS written in?]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> wrote: While I instantly defer, I didn't learn it way back when. I learned the weird Sinclair BASIC editor first, then Edlin, then a maze of twisty little DOS wordprocessors, all alike, then RPED on Amstrad CP/M, then the frankly bizarre Acorn dual-cursor text editor, and finally I switched to Windows, at which point, sanity broke out. Basically, and I realise this probably sounds very silly and strange and odd to a Unix or Emacs veteran, I want it to look and work pretty much like (say) MS-DOS Edit - but when you hit the limits of that program and its functionality, you get all the extra Emacs power opening up before you. But menu bar, movable resizable sub-windows, dialog boxes, etc., all in text mode and keyboard operated. I found a Linux text editor I /really/ liked a few years back, but the author is not maintaining it and it doesn't work properly on modern Linuxes. It's called SETedit. http://setedit.sourceforge.net/ It probably looks like a dog's breakfast to Unixy types, but to my PC-permeated mind, this is what a text-mode PC text editor /should/ look like. :?) Emacs could, I am sure, provide this functionality without breaking sweat. The thing is, I suspect Emacs types don't see the point. I am not fussed about X.11 - there are numerous X.11 editors that are just fine. However, for me personally, I am crippled if I am stuck in a terminal window. I can use Vi for the very basics, but I have never worked out how to search and replace, or cut & paste, under it, in some 22 years of usage. I don't care for it at all; I can just about endure it. -- Liam Proven ? Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven ? MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? ICQ: 73187508