The EDT Editor EDT is an interactive text editor which can run in either a line editing mode or a full screen mode.
Most people prefer to use the full screen mode.
However, users who are working from home via a modem may wish to use the line editing mode if they find the full screen editing too slow. They can get instructions in the HAC handout on EDT, which describes the line editing mode of EDT more fully than this section of the manual. Complete explanations of both the line and the screen modes of EDT can be found in the DEC documentation. EDT then creates a workspace, known as a buffer, in the system's memory. If the file you have specified already exists, a copy of it is placed in the buffer.