[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

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On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:08:01 +0100
Johnny Billquist via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 2016-01-26 13:57, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:18:59 +0100
> > Johnny Billquist via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2016-01-26 10:54, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:35:17 +0000
> >>> lists--- via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:49:54 +0100
> >>>> hb via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 01/26/2016 08:02 AM, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> >>>>>> I thought you said you got it to crash by control-X space. If so
> >>>>>> this isn't limited to dired. Maybe the whole thing needs to be
> >>>>>> compiled /noopt and then it will probably be unusable. The other
> >>>>>> option if you really want to compile it like it was "designed" to
> >>>>>> be compiled if there indeed is any such thing would be to get the
> >>>>>> comtemporaneous port of gcc for VAX/VMS and build with that. gnu
> >>>>>> crapware is not guaranteed to build or work with anything but gcc
> >>>>>> and bash and then only sometimes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> With ^X^F and space, which for me seems to be more or less the same
> >>>>> thing as meta-x and dired.
> >>>
> >>> It is definitely not the same as on UNIX/Linux. control xf should ask
> >>> you what file you want to edit and control x control f should just
> >>> move forward in the current buffer. Maybe this also means something...
> >>
> >> Huh?
> >> ^X ^F should be "Find file". It should never move forward.
> >
> > I said that. "control xf should ask you what file you want to edit"
> 
> So what do you mean by "control x control f" then???
> And how would you write out control x followed by a normal f?

Yeah, sorry. I typed it wrong in the first email and tried to correct it in
a subsequent post. I wanted to distinguish between C-x C-f (holding down
the control key for both) and C-x f (letting up on control after you hit
the x) which, unless you use Emacs doesn't seem very sensible.

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