Re: VMS editor uncommon option

Arne Vajhøj was thinking very hard :

On 10/31/2024 1:18 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 10/31/2024 10:57 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 10/30/2024 8:17 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

I could not get plugin manager to download - not sure if
it is a JEdit VMS problem or just a network setup problem - anyway
one can just download the plugins and copy them
to [.jedit.5^.5^.0.jars] and they seem to work - I don't
want to use JEdit without the BufferTabs and JDiff plugins.

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install BufferTabs plugin

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install JDiff plugin

 It does syntax coloring.
 Works fine for C, Java etc..
 Not quite as fine for VMS Basic, VMS Pascal, DCL etc..
 But for those that want it then you can add a
[.jedit.5^.5^.0.modes]whatever.xml and and put
a ref into [.jedit.5^.5^.0.modes]catalog. to
get it.

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So I did a first attempt on DCL, VMS Pascal and VMS Basic
support.
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https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vmsstuff/jedit/
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has some instructions in content.txt and a
jedit-bundle.zip with everything.
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Not everybody likes JEdit, but modern GUI editors
for VMS is not exactly a crowded space. :-)
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Have fun.
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Arne

A naïve question : I have never been exposed, I must admit, to "modern
GUI editors". What more do they have to offer compared to, for example,
good old DECWindows LSE (with EDT keypad of course) ? Could you try to
convince me ?
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Marc Van Dyck