Choosing an editor seems to be a very personal decision. Several editors are available on the cluster:
The default DEC editor on the VAX nodes is EDIT/EDT,
while on the AXP nodes it is EDIT/TPU, so although the
EDIT help file says you don't need to define the symbol EDIT
we recommend that you do.
Editor login.com set up Command EDT $ EDIT :== EDIT/EDT EDIT
TPU $ EDIT :== EDIT/TPU EDIT
LSE LSE
EMACS $ SETUP EMACS EMACS
TEDI $ SETUP TEDI TEDI