[Info-vax] Notepad++ highlighting for DCL

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/30/2019 9:36 PM, 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.
> 
> 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 do not consider that a major problem.

In most cases sources files will work fine in stmlf.

And if necessary there are ways to get the file on VMS as var.

Arne