[Info-vax] GTK and/or up-to-date OpenVMS Porting Library for IA64?

[Richard Maher]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for explaining.

>    Yes, Vim is a whiz-bang version of vi, and, with GTK, it can
> be a whiz-bang version of vi with a more GUI.  I use it
> primarily because I often run out of convenient DECterms:
>
>       ALP $ create /terminal
>       %LIB-F-INSEF, insufficient event flags
>
> (Clicking on the almost-CDE terminal icon just fails silently.
> Sigh.)

Yuk! And yet more I didn't know.

> If _I_ had to use plain vi for several months, I'd probably
> slit my throat.  But I'm a slow learner.

It was only for a limited amount of bash scripting when notepad and ftp (or
that <cr><lf> vs <lf> thing) was even harder. Thankfully (easy)Eclipse came
to the rescue with plugins/templates for all the Java, Perl, HTML and so on.
Anyone want to try to sell NetBeans into this space?

Cheers Richard Maher

"SMS" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:80682602-13ff-4e5c-845f-d901584a0144 at i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Richard Maher wrote:
>
> > Again this won't help you but for argument's sake can you please clarify
> > that you need a recent GTK ported to VMS so that you can build a copy of
Vim
> > and that "Vim" is  a (wiz-bang?) GUI version of vi? Having had to cope
with
> > vi for several months I'm at a loss to know what you're using it for
(but
> > then I thought CRON on VMS was too ludicrous a concept for words only to
> > find that there are already several versions in existence :-( )
>
>    All I'm trying to do is get (some of, more of) the software
> I currently use on my main Alpha system onto an IA64 system.
> Naturally, every step I take augments the task list instead of
> shrinking it.
>
>    I need some kind of GTK to build Vim, apparently not
> anything particularly recent.  What I have on the Alpha seems
> to be an HP-supplied GTK+ 1.2.10 kit from January 2003,
> GTK1210-OPENVMS-A1.SFX_AXPEXE.  This seems to be good enough
> for Vim 6.3, which is what I have on the Alpha.
>
>       http://www.vim.org/
>
>    Yes, Vim is a whiz-bang version of vi, and, with GTK, it can
> be a whiz-bang version of vi with a more GUI.  I use it
> primarily because I often run out of convenient DECterms:
>
>       ALP $ create /terminal
>       %LIB-F-INSEF, insufficient event flags
>
> (Clicking on the almost-CDE terminal icon just fails silently.
> Sigh.)
>
> Occasionally, I use Vim because it has some useful feature or
> other.  Back in the good-old days, when I sat at a Sun
> workstation all day (using dtmail), I used Vim instead of vi.
> If _I_ had to use plain vi for several months, I'd probably
> slit my throat.  But I'm a slow learner.