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Subject: Re: VMS editor uncommon option
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 09:43:10 -0500
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On 11/6/2024 4:49 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> I'm already convinced by the IDE concept. I tried to introduce that
> in my company without success, total lack of interest. I was starting
> from very far, though. People were (and still are, as far as I know)
> FTPing files in and out to edit them locally on their desktop PCs.
> So they didn't even let me start a proof of concept...

That indicates to me that they they are looking for something more.

> What I was more interested in your reply was the purely editing part,
> and that seems to have some interesting points that I'd like to try.

Give it a try.

> But I'm still very much DECset oriented and will probably miss the SCA
> features if I abandon LSE, though, so it will be a difficult choice.

JEdit is no silver bullet.

> I'm mainly programming in PASCAL, it that matters.

Not much. It is mostly a general editor.

I updated the list of keywords to match VMS Pascal
better for syntax coloring. But that is about it.

You can customize keywords even more, because JEdit
support 4 different classes of keywords with different
colors.

Arne