Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> writes: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 08:39:08AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > ... >> ISPF edit. >> I don't remember XEDIT well (1978), but I think the 2 editors are very close. > > not really (aside from running on the same hardware). > > for your amusement > > https://invisible-island.net/personal/oldprogs.html#y1982
Interesting but I don't see where it shows great differences between the two. I see XEDIT uses the M/MM convention like ISPF Edit. Commands on the command line or over the sequence numbers. Similar shift commands. I see some commands are quite different words doing similar things. and some the same. The screens themselves can look very similar. I wrote loads of ISPF edit macros. "G" for "ex all" followed by "find all Y", "!s" for a spelling checker. "CC" for compile. While I was working on S/34 and later Wang/VS I wrote an ISPF like full screen editor. It may seem perverse, but I wrote the editor in COBOL. Worked out quite well. I didn't know you were a mainframer too. Cool. -- Dan Espen
