Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: One user's editor wish list Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 14:32:11 GMT References: <2251@borg.cs.unc.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article <2251@borg.cs.unc.edu> leech@vangogh.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes: > RSX-11 I know from nothing, but VMS subprocesses are generally > nicer for shell escapes - er, DCL escapes - than Unix. SUSPENDing the > subprocess and returning to the editor preserves the context of > whatever you were doing in the next shell escape, which can be useful. Of course this means the editor doesn't know about your escape. VI at least remembers your last shell command. Of course with layers/ptys/etc there's no problem getting the VMS behaviour in UNIX so it's a moot point. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"