[Info-vax] FIND/REPLACE

[walter....@gmail.com]

Robert A. Brooks schrieb am Donnerstag, 2. März 2023 um 03:08:58 UTC+1:
> On 3/1/2023 1:34 AM, walter.... at gmail.com wrote:
> > Since I will retire sometime this year, I will probably loose access to OpenVMS systems. 
> > If anybody is willing to take over maintenance of FIND/REPLACE, please contact me.
> In addition to FIND/REPLACE, among Walter's contributions to VMS during his time 
> at DEC/CPQ/HP is the rewrite of SDL from PL/I into C/C++. 
> 
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> --- Rob

Thank you, Rob.

As to "I will probably loose interest in": I started writing this tool in 1988 because I was disappointed to see that SEARCH didn't support regular expressions.
After 2010, I mostly programmed on Windows, and after 2014 I hardly used OpenVMS at all, which is the reason I didn't notice the lack of support for ODS5.
In 2019 I was back on OpenVMS, supporting programs I didn't write, stored in CMS libraries on ODS5 disks. So I started using it again, and implemented color highlighting and, after some discussion with hb, ODS5 support. And I added PCRE2 after seeing Ferdinand's question. It just took three years until we installed cross tools and an X86_64 system.

Without using it myself, there is not much motivation for enhancements. I am still willing to fix bugs as long as I have access to OpenVMS systems, but I won't install OpenVMS at home. (Actually, there was no bug report in the last 20 years and I don't remember any from the time before.)