[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sl6m42$4v0$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> 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.

Cluster-wide logical names, especially those visible only to a certain 
group (but cluster-wide) are very nice.  Does linux have something 
similar (and I don't mean turd files).

> EDT was long ago considered deprecated and ~immutable, and now it's 
> apparently not. 

Much faster than TPU: no cursor slow motion, doesn't read the whole 1-GB 
file if it just needs to change the top few lines.  Probably easier to 
script and run in batch.

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

TPU supports the EDT keypad.  So does emacs, for that matter.  But there 
is much more to EDT than the keypad.  It's a way of life.  :-)