Looking for an editing program in VMS??

[ngoht20]

Is there an editing program like "Vi" that I can execute from the DCL command???

Because I want to write notes for myself using some kind of editing app sort of like Vi used in UNIX.

thanks

[Hein van den Heuvel]

What's wrong with $EDIT or good old $EDIT/EDT ?

There are VI implementation for OpenVMS.
http://thomer.com/vi/vi.html#versions
- VIM http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/os_vms.html
- VILE http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/freeware50/vile092/
- GNV VI (tpu based) http://h71000.www7.hp.com/opensource/gnvreadme_first.html

Personally, for quick notes I just used $CREATE notes.txt
or
$APPEND TT: my-notes.txt


hth,
Hein van den Heuvel

[Robert Gezelter]

ngoht20,

As Hein has noted, there is many editors available on OpenVMS, including several implementations of vi (I refer you to his response for a list of vi implementations).

Natively, there are also a variety of editors:
- TPU (the default for the EDIT command)
- EDT (a screen and line based editor originally from the RSX-11 family)
- TECO (a character based editor that goes back many many years, long before the PDP-11 or VAX was on the scene)
- SLP (a batch editing program)

All of the above are fully documented.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

[ngoht20]

Thanks!!!!!!

EDIT is amazing...

But one question. How can I save on what I had wrote in EDIT and then retreive it later so I will not have to writ the whole letter again??

Thanks

[ngoht20]

For example. I had created a memo outline in EDIT, so I will I save this memo and then be able to re-open it again without writing the same stuff all over again???

Can someone please provide or post me an example command on how to do this? Thanks.

[ngoht20]

When I save stuff in EDIT that I had wrote in, if I give that a filename to save, what format should it be named?

Like this???

mydocument.txt or what??

[ChaimBu]

OpenVMS does not restrict you in any way as to how to name files. However, there are unwritten conventions, and accordingly you should save your files with a .TXT extension.

Thus if you saved the file and named it myfile.txt then when you want to reedit it at some later time, all you have to do is:

$edit myfile.txt

It's as simple as that!

Good luck!

Chaim

[ngoht20]

OK, once I am in EDIT and after I write my stuff or whatever....How can I SAVE that file???

How can I save as MYFILE.TXT in the first place???

[Hein van den Heuvel]

While at the OpenVMS command line try:

$HELP EDIT
and answer /TPU to the next prompt.

While in the editor touch the PF2 key (above 8 on num keypad) or the PF4 key (top right on keypad) and type HELP there.

To save the file, just exit the editor with control-Z (the universal end-of-input character in OpenVMS). Or do that PF4 thing using the WRITE and EXIT commands.

Note be sure to check your terminal emulator for keyboard mapping settings.

Good luck,
Hein.

[ngoht20]

For example:

I want to create an outline form using a text editoe in VMS.

First, I want to save the file as MYFILENAME.TXT and then proceed to write my notes...

Now, the next step, how would I SAVE that file in order for me to reopen that file name in order for everything to be intaact the way I wrote the memo??

Please ---- Can someone please post the exact steps in order to this??

Examples are great..thats how I learn by someone giving me the exact detail steps on how to do this...