Re: [OT] VMS DCL prompt, was: VMS ODS-5 filesystems, was: Re: Filenames in Ada

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:01:06 +0100, Martin Krischik
> <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> declaimed the following in
> comp.lang.ada:
> 
> 
>> I don't mind VMS - just some if the tools drive me insane - like that
>> joke of a command line shell which can't backspace over a line wrap. So I
>> really which for I had a GNU/VMS tool chain available.
>>
> I've not worked VMS for some four years or so, but I could swear
> that I could work with command lines that wrapped over multiple lines...
> Are you referring to a backspace-delete operation, or a cursor-left
> operation? (I vaguely recall that you could delete back over the wrap,
> but you couldn't cursor over it if all you wanted to do was insert a
> character).

Oh, you can enter a commandline over more then one line - as long as you
don't try to edit that line to much. Bun then I have correct myself: it's
more "insert" then "backspace" which makes trouble.

On the other hand: backspace might delete into the wrong direction - or
delete - depends on how you setup your keyboard. Anyway not at all what the
GNU readline library could do for you.

But then - there are areas where VMS is a lot better then Unix. Alone the
ability to have more then one Administrator. So it's not all bad. I think I
would really enjoy working with "GNU/VMS" (that is VMS kernel with an all
GNU toolchain).

Martin
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