backlighting

[Phillip R Smith]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Tony Balinski wrote:

> 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).

Out of curiosity, how stagnant is the VMS version?  I had thought I  
was running the latest version here (building it was a bit of a  
challenge, but it got done...).  I've not tried to graft on the  
latest enhancements, though...

-Ross-