Lucio Chiappetti <lu...@lambrate.inaf.it> writes: > On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, Dan Espen wrote: >> Lucio Chiappetti <lu...@lambrate.inaf.it> writes: > >>> Yes, it's called Regina, and is required if one wants to use THE (The >>> Hessling Editor) as editor, which is a very good Unix clone of the IBM >>> VM/CMS XEDIT editor. > >> I remember XEDIT, from a shop that was using CMS for a while. >> I started it up and it looked like hell. >> Most distracting was a column scale right across the middle of the >> screen. Fortunately, I didn't run away and hide. > > (SET) SCALE OFF (better if in one's profile) > > the scale is generally annoying, but can be useful if one is editing > a very wide file and wants to limit visibility and/or editing to > columns n-m (SET VERIFY n m) ... what other editors off the possibility > to limit editing to columns or sets of lines with or without a given > pattern or to select and remove entire columns ?
ISPF edit. I don't remember XEDIT well (1978), but I think the 2 editors are very close. I never fooled with any of the ISPF like editors for Windows but I suppose SPFLite would do the job well. Of course it's well known that it's impossible to name an edit feature that Emacs doesn't have. :) I can't remember if I moved the scale or just turned it off. Speaking of scales, I remember when I started using an early version of Emacs on an HP terminal. The HP terminal had a pretty extensive line drawing character set. I set up a scale that looked exactly like a ruler across the top of the screen. numbers, line graduations, and a box around the whole thing. That was to be able to edit MVS Assembler and be able to see col 10, 16, 72. >> I gave it another try and found all the hooks and toggles to customize >> it to my liking > > Yes, it is in my list of favourite easily user-customizable s/w (like > THE, fvwm, alpine ...) Ah, another Fvwm fan. I think it's interesting that the appearance of my Fvwm desktop hasn't changed since I submitted my original screen shot in 2003: https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Screenshots/2003-08-28_Dan-desk-1280x1024/screenshot.gif Well, I narrowed down the borders and tiled the menus with that blue pixmap on the borders. Other than that, I do not have to suffer with my desktop changing based on the disto's whims of the month. -- Dan Espen
