[Info-vax] VMS editor uncommon option

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Thu Oct 31 09:20:05 EDT 2024


On 2024-10-30, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> Not everyone like JEdit, but:
> * it is a modern editor with the type of UI expected today

Expected by who ? There's a reason why lots of people still use emacs
and vi even on operating systems where the fancy GUI alternatives are
mainstream available.

> * it does run on VMS in a reasonable recent version
> * it has the exact same look and feel across platforms
>    (VMS, Windows, Linux)
>

You can also get versions of TECO for each of those platforms. :-) :-)

> Not that many editors match all of those.
>

Simon.

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