On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:51:46 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I always regarded the scrolling on TSPF as an expected feature on a PC
>application, rather than as a surprise. As long as things that worked on ISPF
>worked the same on TSPF, I was quite happy to have additional features, e.g.,
>regexen.
>
I'd call the scrolling behavior surprisingly desirable. But conventional
on any editor not constrained by the limitations of the 3270.
ISPF Edit nowadays has regexen, but regrettably lacking the
back-substitution feeature of sed and the RLENGTH of awk.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sed.html#tag_20_116_13_02
How hard would it be for ISPF to implement a ZRLENGTH?
-- gil
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