I have tried VI and I find it to slow. I would use eMacs. Prefer to ispf ported to Linux/Unix. I have used ISPF for ever and i can out do and any using VI 10 to ispf written for Linux/Unix
Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Aug 22, 2023, at 20:32, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 08:44:30AM +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote: >> I remember using ed. Via a 2400bps modem :-) > > Aha. Ed and vi are still being praised by various people for their > ability to use such a narrow bandwith. > >> I'm told the thing with emacs is that, if you like it, it can end up being >> almost your whole development environment, so you feel lost without it. > > Sure, I agree. But this same thing can be told about any kind of tool > which does its jobs so well that one does not want to search for > anything better. Not perfect, just good enough. Part of this is > avoiding "avalanche" type of changes to the way a tool works. Changes > are introduced, allright, but usually they are acceptable to me. In > some cases, I had to include an ELisp snippet into my dot-emacs. > > I suspect that I would be able to transplant old version of some code > I rely upon into newer emacs, but this might prove to be troublesome. > > BTW, emacs is not very good with big files. I have now one such ~30 > megabyte text file, with Unicode and some stuff describing a structure > of it - it contains my notes, calendar things, but in essence it is > just a magnafied bookmarks file. It loads quite fast, but not > blazingly fast - about five seconds. > > Emacs has a hex viewer too. I use it rarely, because I prefer > "hexdump -C <file | less" > > BTW2, emacs is the only editor I know about that has built in > psychiatric help. And no, this is not one of those Lady Gaga > jokes. Try "M-x doctor". > >> I ended up writing my own editor twice (once for TSO and 3278, again for >> Windoze). Both can run without line numbers and use F-keys to get things >> done, mostly matching the keys I used with the ISPF editor to insert, >> delete, split and join lines etc. > > U-hum. I never felt such inclination (except once when I was very very > young). Learning the tool and using it well enough, seems like > attanaible goal for me :-). > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
