Our version of the "emacs vs. vi" wars. Hey, if you can't use TSO EDIT, well ... <grin>. And I recently read about an author of books who has abandoned "word processors" for the UNIX "ed" editor because "it doesn't get in the way of the creative flow of words".
Each to his own, having respect for others who have a different opinion. Now, about Eclipse users ... On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 08:53 -0500, zMan wrote: > Editors are religion, this entire discussion might should belong in > alt.theology, but I have to admit I'm surprised that anyone likes SPF > EDIT over XEDIT, simply because there's very little in SPF EDIT that > you can't also do in XEDIT, and a lot more. > > Perhaps the antipathy comes from years of programming into the tips of > the fingers that "A" means "After", not "Add", "FIND" instead of > "LOCATE", and the like. It's always surprised me that XEDIT and SPF > EDIT were so similar yet had so many of these (ultimately) trivial > differences. > > Of course, in XEDIT you can put synonyms in your PROFILE to make it > work very much like SPF EDIT...the opposite of which (I have to point > out) you cannot do. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
