EVE (text editor)

EVE (short for Extensible Versatile Editor) is a flexible text editor that is part of the VMS operating system. EVE is implemented by using the Text Processing Utility (TPU).

The Emacs editor features a good EVE emulation (as an add-on).

As the EVE editor was designed to control from a VT100 or VT220 terminal, many keyboard conventions from personal computers do not work.

To assign a command or function to a key or key combination, use the following procedure:

EVE upon its start interprets the EVE$INIT.EVE file in the user's current or home directory. When the SYS$LOGIN:EVE$INIT.EVE file contains

the Ctrl-F key would call string search function, the F3 key repeating of the last search, the F1 key would display the list of EVE commands and the F2 key would call the EVE command line.

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