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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/22/2023 5:16 PM, hb at end.of.inter.net wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

My point was that if someone took the 28.2 source and
put back all the #ifdef vms code from 21.2 then what would
be missing? How much of the new stuff added would require
new #ifdef vms code?

I don't think I have played with GNU Emacs since VMS VAX
days (early 90's) and I have no idea about what has been added
to GNU Emacs the last few decades, but I am sort of guessing
that the new stuff would be most "edit stuff" and not
so much "system interface stuff". Of course I could
be totally wrong.

Arne