Ah yeah, good ol' EDT, my main editor in college. Simple, straightforward, not hard to learn.
And then came EVE. EVE was a hell of an editor. I used it when most of my classmates were still on EDT, because EVE was a lot more powerful and flexible if you were willing to put in the time to learn it (and I had a lot of boring downtime on the help desk). I liked using EVE.
Then after a few years on IBMs with TSO/ISPF, I ended up in a Unix shop...using vi. I'm still scarred for life.
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If you liked EDT and EVE, you might enjoy giving emacs a try. Think of the esc key as a sort of an ersatz Gold key (rather than PF1. ;-)
Or if you really want to use the EDT keybinds, you can have emacs also provide EDT/TPU keybindings (you may have to find a copy of the emacs lisp file "edt-mapper.el", but a lot of unix machines have it installed.)
On this RedHat 4.2 box, all I have to do is ESC x edt-emulation-on RET inside of emacs to set-up EDT key bindings.
Vi is your friend! Bill Joy writes good code! I use a win32 version on my computers!
Actually, I LOVE vi. I progressed from key punch, to XEDIT, to vi.
Mark