[Info-vax] Lisp alternatives for Emacs [was Re: Python for x86?]

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On Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 6:58:34 PM UTC+2, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >Version 21.2 is on the freeware CD. 
> > 
> >https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/emacs/ 
> > 
> >Latest is supposedly 28.2 so 7 major versions difference, but maybe 
> >those versions did not add so much OS specific.
> Again, I believe these don't know anything about file structure and so 
> everything is treated as stream_lf.
> --scott 

There is probably more gone than just the support for VMS record formats. And yes, emacs for VMS created files with variable length format. But I can imagine that nowadays some people prefer that editors on VMS create stream_lf files.