[Info-vax] Extending nested directory search syntax

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-07-08, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 7/8/2021 2:28 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <sc7dvj$n1t$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>> If you want to search all directories under sys$examples: (for example),
>>> it would be nice if the following syntax worked instead of giving
>>> an error:
>>>
>>> $ dir sys$examples:[...]
>>> %DIRECT-E-OPENIN, error opening SYS$EXAMPLES:[...] as input
>>> -RMS-F-DIR, error in directory name
>>>
>>> Would anyone else find such syntax to be useful ?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>
> Well, for me, I'd rather do what I need, and let the devs work on 
> important stuff.
>
> $ SET DEFAULT SYS$EXAMPLES
> $ DI [...]
> $ HOME
>
> Not so difficult ...
>

Oh, David. :-)

If we did things your way we would all still be using 24-line terminals
with a single window editor such as EDT because that's the way it was
done in the past. :-)

Simon.

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