Article 5546 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!portc01.blue.aol.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-dallas!news-in-dallas.newsfeeds.com!in.nntp.be!newsfeed.zip.com.au!203.12.97.119.MISMATCH!nostril.pacific.net.au!gsc From: Sean Case Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Editor Organization: Marginal References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) Message-ID: Lines: 32 Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 19:12:39 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.23.147.196 X-Complaints-To: news@pacific.net.au X-Trace: nostril.pacific.net.au 994497101 210.23.147.196 (Sat, 07 Jul 2001 19:11:41 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 19:11:41 EST Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:5546 In article , "Harris S. Newman" wrote: > For Tops-10, whats the "easiest" editor to use? You mentioned DG's SED. I forget which of DEC's editors that corresponds to. (EDT? When I did some DG work about ten years ago I remember that the parallels between their software offerings and DEC's were downright uncanny.) Others have suggested DTECO, which is (a display-friendly version of) what DG's SPEED was ripped off from. Do not on any account use SOS. If you want to be a hard core PDP-10 hacker, you should learn TECO. But "easiest" is not a word that comes to mind to describe it. See the recent flamew^Wdiscussion on alt.folklore.computers. There is a different screen editor called SED on TOPS-10. I liked it a lot when I was using the '-10 regularly. I don't think there's a DG product that corresponds to it. It's a fairly straightforward screen editor with a fairly powerful macro system (albeit not in TECO's league). There is also extensive online help as well as a printable reference manual and tutorial. Sean Case -- Sean Case gsc@zipworld.com.au Code is an illusion. Only assertions are real.