TN3270 does not support what vim needs. Now if WSA were still a thing ... IAC, if I used a PC editor it wouldn't be vim. Given a free hand, I'd look at emacs and Open Editor first. Or if they ever brought Tritus back from the dead, ...
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, April 11, 2025 4:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF EDIT CHANGE regex requirements? External Message: Use Caution On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:29:08 +0000, Farley, Peterrote: >One could enter an IBM “Idea” for that I suppose, but I do not think that the >underlying C library regex routines support those features, so it might be a >heavy ask. > Might sed- like numbered captures be a lighter ask? Or, empower ISPF to invoke vim as an alternate editor. >From: Seymour J Metz >Sent: Friday, April 11, 2025 2:23 PM > >Has abybody submitted ISPF requirements for IEDIT CHANGE to support regexen >beyond what POSIX requires? E.g., > > \b word boundary > \d digit, equivalent to [0-9] > backreferencing > named captures > PCRE > referring to captures in replacement string > Unicode character classes > >In particular, make it easy to do something like > > C R'/bR(\d+)\b' R'\($1\)' -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
