Not just desirable, but expected. Had it been up to me, ISPF would support Perl regex syntax, including named captures. And, yes, substitution of captures greatly simplifies many tasks.
RFE? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux 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://secure-web.cisco.com/1ZunSdmXHsWTZqbGXedg4opypZcTmNhIWDCFIZa1vD5oZ-rlkClEgj3KabTLNzkRhR32vIECTPAqBZor5q7UEXHunr3sColHdnrpLKfV6pH_6U5SOhjbycnkbC4jU-r1MFuby19ESdu3S_aPzzZTXBLq96WLtiVJMyP4C_Iv72hgmMJsDBYI1RNIqERn7UuaFfIiXYPluVA_DM2o0Nq4sCYFLW-T3TCJcTxYmuBdggqifrfsb0o6Af8NJ-26eQU0-0O70qx64adeWsqNpxpGE0RCncyPhbcgSOdMozAiqwhaNmspN5Yo1o9iNxAvnqoA1sxMFkjTjY52iMsJLjB1wjZRzQZROATFWmTWLC1Gm6DqKTZhtYqhj2QUZpwhz6vtBd7o9m4ZOcqyETlioRmhjQt-waTpg6ikHeYMBEB5dM9YjrNBKoldhxZaTcbrMYi8_/https%3A%2F%2Fpubs.opengroup.org%2Fonlinepubs%2F9699919799%2Futilities%2Fsed.html#tag_20_116_13_02 How hard would it be for ISPF to implement a ZRLENGTH? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
