[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-06-13 14:59, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <njeel9$fq3$1 at dont-email.me>, "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net_work> writes:
>>
>> One issue with the VMS terminal line editing is because it is handled in
>> the driver, it does not have access to the filesystem to allow it to do
>> filename completion.
>
>    Which belongs in the CLI, not the terminal driver.  The CLI should be
>    doing it's own command line editing,instead of leaning on the limited
>    editing in the driver.

I don't agree. I want command line editing, no matter if I'm at the CLI, 
or in some user application. And I do not consider it to be a good 
system design that every program should include their own version of 
commmand line editing.

That said, I usually tend to only look for filename expansion at the CLI 
level. But editing I want always.

	Johnny