On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote: > 2010/3/28 Benjamin R. Haskell: > > > Are there any systems in common, current use for which this causes > > problems? (Why would people be using Vim in DOS emulators?) > > > > Why would people be using Windows on servers? > > But there is.
Corporations that want support, or who use Windows-only programs. Windows isn't the point, anyway. Post-3.1 Windows versions don't have an 8-character limit. > And there is some privative DOS applications with no support from its > partners and those code is not available in any manner that are even > useful for its users and the only way to run them is emulating windows > or (better if enougth) DOS environment. > > And then, if you have DOS environment, you would like to have vim inside. > ;-) And I'm saying that's an uncommon enough case that it shouldn't matter if you require someone using a system like that to rename some files. They have to rename some files already to get the core runtime files working. -- Best, Ben -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vim_use+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
