On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:35:35 -0500, Mark van der Eynden wrote:
>
>Really I whilst I find the ISPF editor reasonably efficient most of the time,
>XEDIT ran rings around it in almost every area. I can't think of a single thing
>that the ISPF editor does better.
>
I much prefer ISPF's behavior of not scrolling unless necessary to
display the search target; rather I loathe XEDIT's behavior of
always scrolling to put the search target on CURLINE.

>How does one replace VARBLANK? In what way are picture strings a
>replacement for ARBCHAR?
>
I'd rather have regular expressions.

>CURLINE comes in sooo handy at times
>
But see above.

>The XEDIT change command is often streets ahead of ISPF
>
Regular expressions would make it even better.

-- gil

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