[Info-vax] VMS and Unix, was: Re: Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-02-05, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:
> In article <anas2aFlgnoU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
> (Bill Gunshannon) writes: 
>
>> Well, I have seen nmerous people here lament the fact that the only
>> version of emacs available on VMS is rather dated.  Are you saying
>> that there really is no one who wants a newer emacs on VMS?
>
> Are these VMS types, or unix types who don't know EDT or other VMS 
> editors?

In my case, I started out in the DEC world before moving to Unix for a
number of areas,

For me, it's more about been used to working with what's available under
Unix and missing those capabilities when I work on VMS.

BTW, the only version of emacs for VMS I saw wrote all over multiple system
directories and that's a no-no for me on production systems for programs
which don't _need_ to be installed in order for production tasks to be
carried out.

I have not built emacs in a long time, but under Linux you can build emacs
so that all bits of it live in a tree under a build-time specified location
in the same way as you can with the rest of the other GNU based software.

Simon.

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