backlighting

[Tony Balinski]

Quoting "Geary, Mark" <Mark.Geary at qwest.com>:

> Greg Edwards wrote:
> >
> > The writer who commented that there are great new already-stable
> > features that could be added tomorrow, if we ignored total
> > compatibility across all platforms, has a point. Do you have a
> > survey of platform numbers in use ?  You have to let go of some
> > eventually. Like SGI Irix, they have almost no workstations left.
>
> Here at Qwest, we have a group of, maybe, 20-30 people who use NEdit
> on VMS. I don't know if any of them read this list. I expect VMS is
> the most challenging platform when it comes to maintaining
> compatibility.
>
> Mark Geary
>
Indeed. But I reckon many (most?) of the patches would work very well
under VMS. If we start using libraries that are not available to VMS
(without adding them to NEdit's source list) then VMS will slip further
into stagnant waters. Unicode libs probably fall under this category.

Many companies have requirements to carry on with these "older" systems
and I reckon it's very important to support their users. When I used
them I was grateful to find NEdit would work with them (VMS included).

Tony