[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-11-16 kl. 19:45, skrev David Froble:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <o0hkks$e45$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Richard Maher
>> <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes:
>>> For fuck sake how hard would it be to port Notepad++ to VMS?
>>>
>>
>>    Why would anyone want to work on porting that worthless P.O.S.
>>    to any platform?
>>
>
> +10000000

OK, I must ask...

 From what I have heard from various people, Notepad++ is
a rather nice and lightweight programming editor.

Notepad, on the other hand, isn't worthless as-is, but it isn't
really a *programming* editor either.

I got the impression that some here are mistaken Notepad++
for the builtin Notepad in Windows...

Now, the major problem with Notepad++ is that it is a graphical
GUI and that doesn't play well together with VMS.

Any new edititing IDE-style environment for VMS development will
certenly not be running natively on VMS. I have used UltraEdit32
using the built-in FTP support for VMS and it works quite nice.
For better integration with such things as VMS debugger you will
probably need some more advanced c/s setup with special server
processes on VMS.