A long time ago I used a VAX/VMS editor at work. I think it was the best editor I’ve ever used. I especially liked the “learn” command, which you can use to teach the editor a key sequence.
I don’t like Emacs and I don’t like vim.
Would edt editor or something similar be the answer to my wish?
Since you’ve mentioned edt, why not use it? It’s still out there for download.
Am not so Technical… an still learning 
Find works fine with gedit or nano
BTW gedit is the text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.
Thanks!! → I’ve downloaded it from SourceForge and will build some time soon.
I had a copy of Edit/1000 User’ Guide.
1976: Plant II with a usable floor space of 20,000 square meters is opened .
I’ve now built the EDT code and tried it –
Apart from that, it looks pretty much as it always used to …
Hi,
I have downloaded edt_1.9 and give command gcc -O edt_1.9.c -o edt.
I’ve read the Readme.txt many times but I still don’t know what I should write in the .bashrc file.
I mean this part:
“Configure:
Place an alias in your .bashrc or .tcshrc to the Absolute location of edt.
Example: alias edt=/home/bart/bin/edt
Set environment variable, EDT_KEYPAD_SETUP, to point at the edt_keypad.xml file.
Example: export DT_KEYPAD_SETUP=/home/bart/edt_keypad.xml”
Directory looks like this:
drwxr-xr-x 1 raija raija 312 17. 7. 22:40 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 raija raija 14 17. 7. 22:32 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 raija raija 120664 17. 7. 22:40 edt*
-rw-r--r-- 1 raija raija 155267 1. 1. 2012 edt_1.9.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 raija raija 1449 9. 6. 2008 edt_keypad_cygwin_laptop.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 raija raija 2093 9. 6. 2008 edt_keypad_linux_laptop.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 raija raija 2089 9. 6. 2008 edt_keypad_linux_pc.xml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 raija raija 2190 27. 8. 2010 edt_keypad_sun.xml*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 raija raija 103 31. 8. 2010 makefile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 raija raija 2627 27.12. 2011 Readme.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 raija raija 5896 9. 6. 2008 scz_decompress.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 raija raija 26667 31. 8. 2010 scz_routines.c
raija@kone1:~/bin/edt_1.9>
So, @raijar … in your home directory there is a “.bashrc” text file.
Open it with a text editor. On a blank line, add this:
alias edt=/home/raijar/bin/edt_1.9/edt
And for the environment variable, on a new line, add either one of these (for desktop or laptop):
export EDT_KEYPAD_SETUP=edt_keypad_linux_pc.xml
or:
export EDT_KEYPAD_SETUP=edt_keypad_linux_laptop.xml
Should work 
I’m stupid.
I can’t get the correct keyboard set.
My computer’s keyboard is a generic 101-key PC.
Edt does start, but cannot be used.
raija@kone1:~>
raija@kone1:~> edt test.txt
Window_Size set to 40-rows, 170-cols
(12-lines 52-characters read-in to buffer 'main').
1:
*
2:
*^C
raija@kone1:~>
I changed the file path because I thought it might be too long.
This is the situation now.
Bin directory (why * is edt_keypad_sun.xml* ?)
raija@kone1:~/bin> l
yhteensä 340
drwxr-xr-x 1 raija raija 348 18. 7. 11:16 ./
drwx--x---+ 1 raija raija 2714 18. 7. 11:32 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 raija raija 120664 18. 7. 10:44 edt*
-rw-r--r-- 1 raija raija 155267 1. 1. 2012 edt_1.9.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 raija raija 1449 9. 6. 2008 edt_keypad_cygwin_laptop.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 raija raija 2093 9. 6. 2008 edt_keypad_linux_laptop.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 raija raija 2089 9. 6. 2008 edt_keypad_linux_pc.xml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 raija raija 2190 27. 8. 2010 edt_keypad_sun.xml*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 raija raija 103 31. 8. 2010 makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 raija raija 1 18. 7. 11:42 Readme.jou
-rw-rw-r-- 1 raija raija 2627 27.12. 2011 Readme.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 raija raija 5896 9. 6. 2008 scz_decompress.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 raija raija 26667 31. 8. 2010 scz_routines.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 raija raija 1 18. 7. 11:13 test.jou
raija@kone1:~/bin>
Keyboard settings
# If you want to use a Palm device with Linux, uncomment the two lines below.
# For some (older) Palm Pilots, you might need to set a lower baud rate
# e.g. 57600 or 38400; lowest is 9600 (very slow!)
#
#export PILOTPORT=/dev/pilot
#export PILOTRATE=115200
test -s ~/.alias && . ~/.alias || true
export EDITOR=nano
alias edt=/home/raija/bin/edt
export EDT_KEYPAD_SETUP=edt_keypad_linux_pc.xml
raija@kone1:~>
raija@kone1:~>
raija@kone1:~>
raija@kone1:~> locate edt_keypad_linux_pc.xml
/home/raija/edt_keypad_linux_pc.xml
/home/raija/bin/edt_keypad_linux_pc.xml
raija@kone1:~>
I’m sorry, but I destroyed all the files and settings because I couldn’t get edt to start properly or I just didn’t understand how to use it. The only command that worked was EXIT. 
Hello, this is Gulshan Negi
Well, I use bubble editor and quill editor and both are amazing and very similar to edt more (detail about both editor you can get from here).
Thanks
Please be aware that, the defaul numeric-keypad layout files –
..DEC_EDT/edt_1.9> ls edt_keypad_*
edt_keypad_cygwin_laptop.xml edt_keypad_linux_laptop.xml edt_keypad_linux_pc.xml edt_keypad_sun.xml
..DEC_EDT/edt_1.9>
are assuming a US-ASCII keyboard layout …
..DEC_EDT/edt_1.9> ./edt
Window_Size set to 40-rows, 119-cols
Warning: EDT_KEYPAD_SETUP not set. (Type help_config for more info.)
(3-lines 13-characters read-in to buffer 'main').
1: Help
*help_config
help_config
1: Help
*
Quoting “help_config” –
When first installing EDT, the key-pad configuration procedure
should be run to acquaint EDT with your particular keyboard.
This process makes the 'edt_keypad.xml' file that EDT references
when starting all future sessions.
To run the configuration proceedure, at the editor's prompt, type:
configure_keypad
It will lead you through a set of instructions involving pressing the
keypad keys. When complete, it will store the configuration file as
'edt_keypad.xml'. The editor will rely on the environment variable:
EDT_KEYPAD_SETUP
to point to that file on future invocations.
I’m sorry, but I destroyed all the files and settings because I couldn’t get edt to start properly or I just didn’t understand how to use it.
If, you’ve really used EDT in the past on a DEC RSX-11M(-Plus) or VAX/VMS machine, I really don’t know how you managed to destroy all the files and settings.
BTW – taken from the EDT “h” command:
q - [quit] Quit from editor without saving file.
ex - [exit] Exit from the editor and save the edited file.
They’ve dropped my e-Mail into an article in the ex-DEC UK Employee newsletter – need to wait for the “Letters to the editor.” 
Thank you for the information.
I’ll try those editors a little later.
I deleted the edt files manually, not by accident.
I think I have not said that I have used the edt editor, but the VAX/VMS editor. I used it from 1982 → until it was retired. As I recall, the editor was called tneve (?). It consisted of a stupid black and white terminal and a Finnish keyboard. There were 4-5 computers (VAX/VMS) and they were in a cluster. There were dozens, if not hundreds, of terminals.
I never configured the terminal, but I edited the settings in the login.com file.
TBH ever tried the editor of MC the file manager?
My favorite is XEmacs. It has a very good TPU emulator. Takes a bit of work to set up but it works great.