[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-11-16, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Another nice thing about UltraEdit and similar editors (e.g. TextPad on
Windows, TextWrangler on Mac) is that you can set them up to respond to
file changes on disk.  This is really handy when inspecting output files,
as you no longer need to do the traditional re-open to see their latest
contents.

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