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- From: claes@rigel.efd.lth.se (Claes Engelin, SKF Data, Sweden)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: Q: LSEdit with DECwindows configuration
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.085621.16429@lth.se>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 08:56:21 GMT
- References: <0095FC39.351E4780.21789@swdev.si.com>
- Sender: news@lth.se
- Reply-To: claes@rigel.efd.lth.se
- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology,Lund, Sweden
- Lines: 48
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- In article <0095FC39.351E4780.21789@swdev.si.com>,
- tillman@swdev.si.com ("Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX
- Support, x8425") writes:
-
- >[...]
- >
- >One feature of V4.0 is that it can run on VMS or Ultrix (different kits, of
- >course) and have the exact same command syntax. This is called Portable LSE.
- >DEC has changed the name, too, to DEC LSE. You can choose the VMS-style
- >commands so it is compatible with V3.1 or you can select the Portable command
- >language (on an individual basis). I use the Portable language, so my *real*
- >command for changing the height is SET HEIGHT nn (instead of the example above,
- >which is the VMS-style command). Other examples of command differences are:
- >
- > set left_margin nn is now set buffer left margin nn
- > set right_margin nn set buffer right margin nn
- > align/comment_column=n align n
- > call procedure params tpu procedure params
- > capitalize word capitalize
- > cut/append cut append
- > cut/noerase copy
- > dcl command cli command
- > define key keyname lse-command new key keyname lse-command
- >
- >and so on. There are quite a few changes. The main reason for these changes
- >seems to have been to eliminate similarity to DCL, turning qualifiers into
- >parameters. Some of the changes (like the SET LEFT and SET RIGHT) seem to be
- >just to make things more verbose, but the designers obviously thought that a
- >more mnemonic grouping of commands would help. Sometimes they succeeded, and
- >sometimes not, but on the whole, someone jumping between VMS and Unix will have
- >an easier time.
-
- Could it be that LSE now uses EVE's command parser? I never really
- understood why LSE had to use its own parser, making it harder for
- us TPU programmers to add LSE commands 8-}
-
- Apart from that, are there any other significant changes to LSE in
- V4? For example, I could use EVE's block cut-and-paste (and FILL)
- stuff.
-
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