SUMMARY: EDT under Digital Unix

From: Nicolas CLERC <clerc_at_amitel.fr>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 09:08:38 +0200

The query was :
> I have no luck. One of my user doesn't like vi and
> wants an editor wich is similar to EDT under VMS. Please, where can
> i find this editor for Unix ( freeware or commercial or Digital ) ?

I receive more than 40 answers. I thank OSF manager who answered
me. Now, a little summary of this answers ( --> my edt selection ) :


EDT kbd map compatible :
        Boston Business Systems had an EDT-workalike ( commercial )
                http://www.bbc.com
        accelr8 product http://www.accelr8.com/
        GNU/X Emacs v20.2 ( free ) ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs
                (M-x edt-emulation-on) to activate it
        http://www.accelr8.com/products/nutpu.htm ( commercial )
        TPU from Digital with an EDT mapping ( commercial )
--> sedt: http://www.ultranet.com/~anker/sedt/sedt.htm ( src, free to
use )
        nu/tpu, which is sold by a/soft ??????


Editor easy to use :
        Emacs: ( free, with DU )
        jed: ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/
        joe: ftp://ftp.u-picardie.fr/pub1/editors/joe/ ( like Turbo Pascal
Editor )
        pico ( available with the pine mailer )

Editor for X11 :
        nedit ( also available for linux, free BSD, ... )
ftp://ftp.fnal.gov/pub/nedit
        dxnotepad or dtpad ( available with X11 under DU )

Editors resources :
        http://www.bsyse.wsu.edu/~rnelson/editors/dtldsrcs.htm

>From gary AVIV :
>We have written an EDT like editor which we make available as freeware.
>ftp://compgen.com/pub/widgets/edt.tar.Z

>From Richard RAYNER
>Digital UNIX on our Alpha came with EDT just type edt
>to run it. It also came with a product called vcl which emulates VMS DCL
>command interpreter :-(

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