I strongly second the suggestion for THE.
Turns out that it is in (some) Linux package collections. (Meaning that
you can prolly install it with standard distro methods.)
I've been building it for years for all platforms that I run:
Linux-amd64, Linux-s390x, FreeBSD, even Slolaris. Works great! And I
have a profile that works same on XEDIT as with THE. Ahhh...
I find myself switching among three editors when in Unix/Linux/POSIX/USS
land: pico/nano (most of the time), THE (when doing serious coding), and
vi when I need one of the tricks that it does better than the others.
-- R; <><
On 10/2/25 7:31 PM, Ben Huntsman wrote:
Hi Steve-
Not quite SPF, but have you looked at The Hessling Editor
(https://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/)? It runs under ooRexx, which there
is a version of for AIX...
THE is more of an xedit clone, but regardless it should be more mainframe-like
than vi!
If you try it please let us know what you think.
Thanks!
-Ben
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Some of you may not remember that there used to be a PC product named SPFPC.
Has anyone ever seen an equivalent product for AIX or Linux.
VI is a uselessly pain
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No one said I could type with one thumb
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