[email protected] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: > I generally preferred XEDIT but I missed having two kinds of shift. > But I'm a tool-building guy and XEDIT had better facilities for > building edit macros than ISPF/PDF EDIT has.
there were several internally developed 3270/fullscreen editors prior to & more mature than xedit (internal developed heavily ran on virtual machine based offerring regardless of the platform that the development was for). when xedit was selected for the product release ... there was some clamor about there were much better alternatives. In one "truth is greater than fiction" there was a response that effectively said that one of the other editors being better & more mature than xedit ... was the fault of the author of the other editor ... and therefor it was his responsibility to improve xedit to fix the deficiencies (almost totally orthogonal to selecting one of the alternatives for product release, in place of xedit). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
