[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 20:08:21 EDT 2021


On 10/25/21 3:54 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.  :-)
> 


  So is EMACS...  :-)

bill




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