[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Richard Maher]

On 16-Nov-16 7:18 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> EDT has the nice EDIT/RECOVER feature.  This is good when there is some
> unexpected problem.
>
> I have also defined a key to write a new version of the current file to
> disk, so that I don't have to leave the editor.  This is good when
> writing source code, saving it, compiling the new version, without
> leaving the editor.  It also protects against making some major change
> by mistake; probably, a previous version can be retrieved and used as
> the basis for a new version without the mistake.
>
> What about the two together?  If I use the last feature, and there is an
> unexpected crash, the journal file can't be applied to the highest
> version of the edited file.  If I apply it to the version of the file it
> was created with, should this work in all cases, i.e. EDIT/RECOVER in
> this case would give the same result as the current state of the highest
> version of the file?  (Obviously, if I make a big mistake and go back to
> a previous version for a fresh start, I will leave the editor and the
> journal file will be deleted.)
>
For fuck sake how hard would it be to port Notepad++ to VMS?

I thought we also went for the wrong horse in dropping Eclipse for NetBeans?

It's just so hard to stay enthused with the level of participation here :-(