[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

[John E. Malmberg]

On 5/29/2018 11:02 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> 
> TPU in EDT mode always had quirks that annoyed me, which is why I never
> left real EDT.

Can you list the quirks?  Are they something that can be fixed in the 
EDT mode source?

I never used EDT much.  I had a 66 line terminal and 48 line terminals 
in the VMS 3.x days, so I used TECO for the full screen windowing display.

And then I started using TPU in EDT keypad mode as the EVE keypad mode 
did not seem to be designed for any VT series keyboard that I have ever 
seen.

>  BTW not the first time I've been involved with a "rogue"
> editor. In college, the editor for the (CDC) system sucked rocks but an
> alternate editor appeared which I learned. Shortly after the university
> released an "official" editor that the computer-related courses were
> expected to teach. (official because it was created locally, by someone in
> the computer center, no, there weren't any editor police checking how you
> were editing your source code)  I never got involved with the official
> editor, having learned the other first which was also faster. Especially
> after I got a hold of its source code and added some speedups to it.
> 
> This was shortly after batch punch cards so ANY editor was a godsend.

On the DecSYSTEM-10 site I was at, someone introduced the University of 
Arizona SOS.  The system management initially tried to discourage it 
because was not installed shared and was a high use image, and every one 
needed a private copy.

This SOS while not having macros was much easier to use on the new video 
terminals than TECO was.  This was before VT terminals.

After about a month or so, no one was still using the Dec supplied SOS 
anymore, and system management gave in and officially installed U of A 
SOS as the default SOS editor and told everyone to get rid of their 
private copies.

The SOS supplied with VAX/VMS 3.x was a significant downgrade from U of 
A SOS.  It was easier to use TECO window mode on a VT terminal.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work