From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bde6706c124e6eed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!irazu.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] VMS DCL prompt, was: VMS ODS-5 filesystems, was: Re: Filenames in Ada Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:31:34 +0100 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <2504922.taLYsOHXFy@linux1.krischik.com> References: <1653090.31FM62oI6I@linux1.krischik.com> <1132902735.252192.317840@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2498786.LPp3FfAJpR@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-73-3-231.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1133085631 17571 84.73.3.231 (27 Nov 2005 10:00:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:00:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6645 Date: 2005-11-27T10:31:34+01:00 List-Id: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:01:06 +0100, Martin Krischik > 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 -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com