That might be true, but in my case it's "familiar enough with ISPF". As I said,
XEDIT I have cold, having modified it, tortured it externally with code that
runs the control blocks and extracts/does things, even written a KPROBE (dump
tool) macro to extract the files being edited from a VMDUMP...
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, September 8, 2025 12:43 PM
To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: HLASM and VM (was RE: Using (0) to suppress alignment checks in
HLASM)
On 9/8/25 10:05, Phil Smith III wrote:
> ...
> There have been abortive discussions at times of a PROFILE for XEDIT that
> would make it behave like ISPF, but there are too many subtleties and I've
> never found the right ISPF maven--someone with the deep knowledge AND the
> interest/time. My XEDIT knowledge is there; ISPF, not so much.
...
When you have become familiar enough with XEDIt to write that profile, you will
no longer need it.
--
gil
