Date   : Sun, 18 Mar 1984 23:13:00 cst
From   : Eaton.HFED@hi-multics
Subject: VEDIT 1.38/1.16

I have been using VEDIT 1.37 for about a year now and just love it.  I
got a chance to rummage through the manual on v1.38 today and was really
amazed by the number of improvements that have been made.  Some of those
that I can remember are:

       1.  Horizontal scrolling
       2.  Help file
       3.  Arithmetic registers (add/sub only, for now)
       4.  Ret vs. esc,esc to end command mode
       5.  Default to text reg 0 on return
       6.  Quit but stay in editor
       7.  Expanded search/replace
       8.  Default disk/user for help and ini files
       9.  Keyboard map
       10. Expanded command set
       11. Bit 7 handling (Wordstar too)
       12. Output file name on status line

For those of you who haven't used or seen VEDIT it comes highly
recommended.  It is the best darned editor for writing programs that I
have used.  It has limited although serviceable use as a word processor.
As a program editor it runs rings around it's competition.

I don't know if they updated those lousy installation procedures but
here's hoping they did.  You have to know quite a bit about your
terminal if you want to do a really custom version.  Otherwise you can
use one of their "terminal in a can" routines.

Jesse (who once used ed)

Eaton.HFED@HI-MULTICS