In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/03/2007 at 01:05 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Me, too, on regex. I won't comment on the use of regexen in vi, but I'd love to see a well thought out design using Perl-style regex syntax. Specifically, I'd like to see look-behind and look ahead in the regex syntax and replacement of a matched substring in the CHANGE syntax, e.g., RECHANGE /^....(A)/i $1 'B' .f .l ALL would change LC or UC A in column 5 to B starting with the line labelled A and ending with the line labelled B. Even better would be the functionality of NIH Wylbur or SuperWylbur®. >While we're on editor techniques, can I do with ISPF something I've >found useful in XEDIT: Another feature from XEDIT that I'd like in ISPF is SET PENDING. >momentarily and reversibly display excluded lines. FLIP isn't really what you're asking for, but it should serve in at least some cases. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html