[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-10-25 04:28:45 +0000, alanfeldman48 at gmail.com said:

> But Hoff, it _was_ fixed! Looks like no one knows when or what version 
> of VMS it was fixed in.

If this purported logical name colon-oscopy makes you happy and if 
logical names do what you need, by all means enjoy and use logical 
names. They are what is available, of course.

For my usage, logical names are a weak and volatile system-integrated 
key-value store design straight from the 1980s, and largely intended 
for app customization, and competitively woefully inadequate for app 
needs past device and file redirection, and I'm increasingly skeptical 
there.

Logical names provide one facet of app customization semi-adequately, 
and that is not an issue I tend to have encounter or create in newer 
app designs, while poorly providing for other app customization 
requirements, and the whole of logical-name-based settings maintenance 
is just utterly and stupidly disconnected from the apps themselves.

The whole realm of logical names and app customization needs an 
overhaul of a scale well past the VAX/VMS V4.0 overhaul.

> Here's a bonus question. When was EDT updated to allow more than 22 
> lines? IDK, but it's made me happy!

EDT was long ago considered deprecated and ~immutable, and now it's 
apparently not. That's a decision that VSI gets to make, of course. 
Whether its apparent commutation was a wise decision remains to be 
seen. But then I tend to use EDT only when that's the last editor 
available this side of PATCH. For those that do still prefer to use 
EDT, yay, it's not dead yet.  Maybe some of the 🤬 in the EDT help gets 
fixed too, as VSI develops their strategy for text editor support.

BTW: LSEDIT permits the EDT keypad, and has supported far larger 
displays, and with app development features massively better than EDT.





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