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Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I should have been clearer. > > I prefer ISPFs exclude even though xemacs has multiple ways > to hide text, the simpler whole line approach and the first/last > stuff just seems better. > > The ISPF bounds stuff and shifting is pretty good too. > emacs has a bunch of 'rectangle' facilities, but ISPF wins again > with a simple powerful interface. > > If I'm doing CLISTs and PANELs, ISPFs models/help wins again. > > On the other hand being able to use the same editor for editing, > mail, news, file managment, downloads, etc. is what puts XEmacs light > years ahead. > > My opinion, anyway. for nearly anything that emacs doesn't do ... that ISPF might ... you write some lisp code. nearly 20 years ago, there was some XEDIT stuff that weren't in emacs ... that somebody wrote some lisp code to emulate. trivial one that i have still laying around is ALL (display just the lines containing search argument) display-function for all ... all is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `all'. (all REGEXP &optional NLINES) Show all lines in the current buffer containing a match for REGEXP. If a match spreads across multiple lines, all those lines are shown. Each line is displayed with NLINES lines before and after, or -NLINES before if NLINES is negative. NLINES defaults to `list-matching-lines-default-context-lines'. Interactively it is the prefix arg. The lines are shown in a buffer named `*All*'. Any changes made in that buffer will be propagated to this buffer. ... snip ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
