[Info-vax] Notepad++ highlighting for DCL

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On 10/31/19 2:36 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 10/30/2019 11:18 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> Why would anyone in their right mind use a Windows machine to edit DCL anyway?
>> Windows got a pretty big selection of tools.
>>
>> Edit on Windows and upload is not that unlikely a scenario.

Edit on a non-VMS system and upload is not that unlikely a scenario.

> 
> And lose all formatting information as my files all turn into Stream_LF
> in the process?  Not such an issue with DCL, but it quickly becomes an
> issue with other things.
> 
> There is a subversion client for VMS, incidentally, so you don't need to
> take the files off the VMS machine in order to check them into the svn
> server.  However, it doesn't support SASL if that is an issue, and as I
> recall it also has a bad habit of losing formatting information and turning
> everything into Stream_LF.

I'm not sure I understand this, that is the process of editing a DCL
command procedure. The file is in an svn repository. It is checked out
on VMS using the subversion client (is this a Java application?). On the
system you want to use Notepad++ you check out the source file with
another svn client, make the changes and check it into svn. And then you
check out on VMS, again. If that is the process, it seems a lot of
overhead for command procedures usually not under the control of a
version control system.

As everybody probably knows, there is also a native git client for VMS.
It lacks some features, but may be used for such an edit process as
well. It requires almost all files to be in Stream_LF format and the
repository to be on an ODS5 disk.