On Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:39 AM, Andrew Wilson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > I don't like DCL and my admins don't have enough clue to have installed > any decent editors so I'm stuck with eve or edt (yuck!!!). Arse to DCL! > (Now I want to be ill all over the keyboard (yuck, yuck, yuck!)) > You don't have to be a privileged user to install and set up your own editor, just write permission to a disk. A vi emulator called vile is available on Decus - Emacs has also been ported to VMS.
In terms of DCL - I have abandoned this in favour of Perl ;-) The VMS port works quite well, once you have got to know the few gotchas: long lines, binmode, flock, no symlinks, %ENV, etc.
