[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-11-16, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> <VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>>In article <F+hM4zRm1Lwb at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>>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?
>>
>>I believe Richard was being facetious.
>
> It would be nice to ship a quick and dirty simple editor with VMS, and it
> likely would be an afternoon's work to write something for novice users that
> would be a lot better than Notepad.

Or port Nano?

I have often wondered if the real aim of Notepad was to persuade you
to buy something better.

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