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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: VMS editor uncommon option
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:20:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-30, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> Not everyone like JEdit, but:
> * it is a modern editor with the type of UI expected today

Expected by who ? There's a reason why lots of people still use emacs
and vi even on operating systems where the fancy GUI alternatives are
mainstream available.

> * it does run on VMS in a reasonable recent version
> * it has the exact same look and feel across platforms
>    (VMS, Windows, Linux)
>

You can also get versions of TECO for each of those platforms. :-) :-)

> Not that many editors match all of those.
>

Simon.

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