RE: Open Source menu system

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Rich [mailto:james@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:04 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Open Source menu system
> 
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Hans Boldt wrote:
> 
> > Winchester Terry wrote:
> > >
> > > But I wondered what your opinion would be regarding
> > > the "open sourcing" of SEU and SDA.  Apparently, these
> > > products are never going to be enhanced in the future.
> > > It sure would be nice if the AS/400 (iSeries) community
> > > could take these two programs and enhance them as they
> > > see fit.   Good idea or bad idea - in your opinion?
> 
> Hans already responded to this.  I thought I would add what I 
> think is a better solution to SEU and SDA and their source 
> status.  Why not store all your source on an NFS exported 
> tree and use an existing GPL'ed editor such as emacs or other 
> open source editors such as vim?  This approach allows
> you to customize the editor to your needs.

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> James Rich

James,

Personally, I'm not fond of PC based editors - most tend 
to be too "mouse" oriented.  Guess I need to look at Emacs 
and vim to see what they offer.  Do they automatically 
recover code loss when the PC fails - like SEU does?

Terry