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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

