On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: > On 07/29/12 05:28, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 29/07/2012 06:08, Ben Finney wrote: >>> Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> writes: >>> Learn one of Emacs or Vim well, and you won't need to worry >>> about text editors again. >> >> Point taken, snag being I've never used any nix box in anger. >> This thread reminds of the good 'ole days when I were a lad using >> TPU on VMS. Have we got any VMS aficionados here? > > Though I'm personally far more vitriolic about VMS vs $OS (had a few > souring experiences with VMS in college) than I am regarding Vim vs. > Emacs, you can get Vim for at least OpenVMS: > > http://www.vim.org/download.php#others > > I presume sources compile fairly well on other flavors of VMS if > needed, and I'd expect Emacs can do likewise[1] >
I used to use tpu (used to have piles of tpu macros..) and I first got used to emacs by using its tpu mode - I see that still exists so you can use emacs and pretend it is really tpu! Robert -- La grenouille songe..dans son château d'eau Links and things http://rmstar.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
