[Info-vax] Filename completion, was: Re: VMS x86 performance ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/3/2020 12:55 PM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> Phillip Helbigundress to reply wrote on 03/11/2020 :
>> Also the ability to send an interative process to the background is 
>> nice.  A workaround on VMS is to start with a subprocess then attach 
>> to the main process and so on, but that is not as nice.
> 
> When I was working for DEC, I always had 3 sub-processes running lsedit,
> mail, and notes. Even had keypad keys defined to spawn them and attach
> to them. Now of course notes is gone, and mail rarely used, but for
> the editor I still do it...

Once upon a time I had EVE running in a subprocess and
EVE command defined to attach and EXE EXIT doing
an attach back.

It worked.

I stopped using it when moving from VAX to Alpha. If there
is no wait time starting up the editor then no need for
anything fancy.

Arne