[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion

[David Froble]

mcleanjoh at gmail.com wrote:

> HELP was designed with mid-1970s computing in mind, meaning that it
> was 80 columns x 22 lines and because scroll back capability was
> rare, few if any Help pages exceeded those 22 lines. I'm not saying
> throw it away but I think it could be updated to suit modern
> techniques.

As with most useful things.  There is always room for improvement.

> It should also be remembered that HELP has the advantage that most
> VMS commands correspond to plain English, for example RENAME rather
> than mv, SEARCH rather than grep and in my early days, EDIT was an
> editor, which is pretty obvious compared to a command like vi.
> 
> It's the use of meaningful command verbs (and the ability to
> abbreviate them) that makes VMS easy to work with.

Well, for English speakers.  It still might be gobbly gook for all others.

But, as an English speaker, yeah, I agree 100%.