[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-10-07, Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
>
> But a few months ago there was a thread lamenting the
> 24 line limit and a fellow EDT user talked to me about that thread one
> morning.  I was in a really weird mood, what I call my "mission from God
> mode" but without a mission.  I was curious and decided to look at EDT
> again to see how bad it was.  But then EDT became my "mission" and I
> started changing things. I didn't intend to do it all but I did.  I saved
> the files I changed and ran a build and holy crap, it worked, first time.  
> Not checkin ready, in fact that first pass I just replaced the hardcoded
> constants with a "variable" set to a bigger constant, the size of the
> window I was using. But now I knew what needed to be done.  And little
> time was actually "wasted" on EDT.
>

If this was one of my various threads on the subject where I point
out how limited EDT is when compared to other editors (even EVE)
then I'm going to have to be more careful what I say in the future. :-)

$ set response/mode=mischievous

OTOH, this might be a _really_ good time for me to repeat my regular
comments about how hopeless I think DCL command line editing is
compared to other CLIs because, among other things, you can't even
edit across terminal line width boundaries. :-)

$ set response/mode=really_really_mischievous

So, is TECO going to be available on x86-64 ? (Not that I've used
it in over 20 years).

Simon.

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