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From: dennis@uw-warp.UUCP (Dennis Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs wish list for VAX/VMS systems
Message-ID: <418@uw-warp.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 06:36:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: KARNEY%PPC.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA's message of 14 Oct 88 18:32:06 GMT

Charles Karney wanted some stuff in GNU Emacs.  Part of it is already
done.  He writes:

    Subject: Gnu Emacs wish list for VAX/VMS systems
    Message-ID: <881014113206.20600217@NMFECC.ARPA>

    Here's my wish list for Emacs. . . on VAX/VMS.

    (1) Dired.  This currently fails because VMS Gnu Emacs can't run the shell
    program ls.  This could be implemented via VMS run-time-library routines.

Jimp@cognos recently posted a dired fix for Emacs 18.47.  I haven't
tested it personally, but it looks ok.  Here is the reference:

From: jimp@cognos.uucp (Jim Patterson)
Subject: Re: Dired.el for VMS systems?
Message-ID: <4235@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 14:49:14 GMT
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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    (4) File name completion on directories.

This already works, at least under 18.49 for VMS, but not the way I
first expected.  Say you have a subdirectory named [DENNIS.FOO].  When
you do a find-file, the prompt will be something like $DISK1:[DENNIS].
Type "F" and press <tab>.  The F will either go away or get completed,
depending on whether the F uniquely specifies a file.  If "F" doesn't
work, try "FOO" and press <tab>.  The [DENNIS] will transform to
[DENNIS][.FOO] which works just fine.

     .
     .
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    Incidentally, I have a mail-sending and TeX-running interface for VMS Gnu
    Emacs which I am willing to share with anyone who wants.  Neither of these
    is wonderful because of the imperfect interface to subprocesses in the
    present version of Emacs.

I am very interested in receiving copies of this.  It seems like you
might want to just post this.  If, as Charles pointed out, the FSF is
no longer going to support VMS-specific improvements, then we need to
either post everything and/or we need to create a VMS Emacs
repository.  I'm sorry that I can't volunteer due to lack of disk
space.  Is there someone else who is committed to maintaining a deluxe
version of VMS GNU Emacs?

Thanks,
-- 
Dennis.
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