[Info-vax] Vim issues

[Neil Rieck]

On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 5:17:38 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2023-06-21 12:39:58 +0000, MG said: 
> 
> > On DECUServe ("EISNER::") I've encountered a few peculiar 
> > issues with Vim. 
> >
> > The Vim version in question is 7.1.236... 
> 
> 9.0.0 is the current stable version of vim: https://www.vim.org 
> 
> For OpenVMS ports (and while the server is accessible), fetch 8.2.222 
> from http://polarhome.com/vim/ 
> 
> 8.x fixed various issues I'd had with 7.x. 
> 
> Test your vim issues and errors with 8.2.222 or 9.0.0, and then log 
> some bug reports. 
> 
> PolarHome was shutting down many (most) of their activities, so I'm not 
> sure of the status of that server, and it may well be up or down... 
> 
> "2022.01.03 polarhome R.I.P - this is the end of 22 years long 
> open-shell journey... with total of more than 200k users on 40+ 
> servers. The main reason is the lack of interest - both from the 
> administrators and users' side as well. It costs a lot to run an 
> environment like this in maintaince hours, hardware and eletricity... 
> the demand and offer ratio does not justify the existence. The system 
> will be up from time to time to help open source development - but it 
> is closed to the public." 
> 
> I'm not aware of a new residence for a port of vim to OpenVMS. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

re: polarhome

Years ago I patched their version of VIM for VMS so that it would play nicely with OpenVMS (up until then, monitoring an idle VIM session would produce non-idle results). Anyway, back then I didn't know who was maintaining the official code so I sent my fix back to the team at polarhome.com who were serving it up for a time. I now wonder if my fix ever got my back into the official source code.

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net
http://neilrieck.net/OpenVMS.html