Same editor. Poor choice of words on my part. I still want POSIX regular
expressions. And my first IBM "full screen" editor was EDGAR on VM/370,
the precursor to XEDIT. Well, it was the second one actually. My first
was SPIN under CICS/VS on OS/VS1 - IIRC, SPIN was the CICS transaction
id. It's real name was SPM-Online: "Source Program Maintenance -
Online". Any other ex-users remember that? It kept its data in BDAM
files.

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 21:00 -0600, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
> I've always liked ISPF edit much more than XEDIT.  You said PDF edit - I'm 
> not sure if you mean something different than ISPF edit.
> 
> My theory is that what you learn to use first is usually what you like best. 
> I first learned SPF edit back around 1979.  I was the VM systems programmer 
> for 5 or 6 years, but I never liked XEDIT as well.  I remember several of 
> the programmers and analysts who used XEDIT long before we installed MVS 
> liked XEDIT much better than ISPF.
> 
> Eric Bielefeld
> Sr. Systems Programmer
> IBM Global Services Division
> Dubuque, Iowa
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- >
> > Don't I need XEDIT first? Is there an XEDIT for z/OS? XEDIT beats the
> > stuffing out of PDF edit as far as I'm concerned. Although I would be
> > mollified if PDF edit would enhance the FIND, RFIND, CHANGE, and RCHANGE
> > to include POSIX regular expressions.
> >
> >> 
> 
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