[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[John Reagan]

On Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 7:06:07 AM UTC-4, hb wrote:
> On 06/25/2016 02:12 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> >>> Nowadays of course I use Emacs. Is Emacs available for VMS? That
> >>> has to be a big improvement to whatever DEC-originated editor you
> >>> might be using now.
> > There is at least two different Emacs for OpenVMS.  That is what I
> > use as a daily editor.  Works great using PuTTY via my Windows 7
> > box.
> 
> I don't know about these two different versions John is referring to.
> The support for VMS was removed in Emacs 23. There are sources which
> claim to be version 21.2, which I didn't find in any source repository.
> These sources are on the VMS freeware CD V8.0. They should build and
> work on Alpha. In the same directory there are source code changes for
> that version which make it build and run on I64. In
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/DGISjZP4fUs%5B151-175%5D
> there is a pointer to changes for VAX.
> 

That the one I use.  21.2.  I didn't mean to imply current support but that you can get a somewhat recent version of Emacs.  I probably can use it for another 50 years before I'd learn enough Emacs to tell the difference between 21.2 and the latest version.

Doug G uses the older DEC Emacs, not sure of the heritage of that one.