My editor of choice, on Linux, is GNU Nano. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_nano
Regards, Mark Regan, K8MTR General, EN80tg CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991) Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017 z/OS Network Software Consultant (z NetView, z/OS Communications Server) Contractor, Checks & Balances, Inc. Email: marktre...@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-t-regan On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 9:38 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > I take it you don't know the difference between vi and vim. > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf > of David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 9:07 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Rocket Vim fileencoding (was: ... ASCII ...) > > On 10/2/22 8:29 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > I couldn't imagine voluntarily using an editor that didn't have a good > macro language. The ubiquity of vi is certainly a good reason to learn it, > but not to use it routinely. > > Huh? I use nvim (neovim) which has the full force of Lua for writing > plugins, and that includes customizing the UI. I can't even write a > custom syntax highlighter for ISPF! > > I take it you don't know much about Vim? > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on > behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 6:15 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: Rocket Vim fileencoding (was: ... ASCII ...) > > > > On 9/2/22 9:40 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 15:20:52 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >> > >>> On 9/2/22 12:48 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>>>> ... > >>>>> I ran Vim on z/OS. It's part of the Rocket Ported Tools suite. It's > uses > >>>>> enhanced ASCII like all of the ported tools. > >>>>> > >>>> Have you played with Vim ":set fileencoding=..."? It works > >>>> splendidly on Linux. > >> It might be useful for generating tests or with such as: > >> : w ! iconv -f IBM-1047 -t UTF-8 >codes > > I just tried it and it works. Rockets Vim port is surprisingly good. We > > also have emacs and a lot of our young guys use that. I like Vim because > > it's the default editor > > on *nix sysems and it's always there. Its mode of operation takes some > > learning but it's worth it. I couldn't imagine using ISPF to edit Unix > > files but customers do it > > which is why I'm researching this EBCDIC issue. > > > > > >>> No need. I'm convinced that ISPF edit does not support any codepage > >>> other than 1047. I've opened a case with IBM to confirm. Pretty shabby > >>> implementation if that's true. > >>> > >> It used to support UTF-8. Regression. But my recollection might not > be probative. > > I would avoid tagging files UTF-8. For text conversion to work in the > > shell you need to set _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ALL, at which point almost all > > programs that use enhanced ASCII > > will break. That includes Python, Git, all of Rockets ported tools suite! > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
