In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/05/2006
at 12:06 PM, "Eric N. Bielefeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I think most of what people have as their opinion of what editor is
>best comes from the first editor you learned, either in school or on
>the job.
Perhaps, but I wouldn't want to go back to the 026[1], CRJE or even
TSO EDIT.
>A couple of years ago I took 3 Linux Admin classes, and had to
>learn the VI editor. I thought that VI was the worst possible
>editor imaginable.
It may be the Editor From Hell, but you can count on its being
available on any *ix system that you need to deal with.
>Yet, if I talked to our Unix person, VI was great.
Those that swear by emacs hate vi.
>He thought ISPF was awful.
De gustibus non disputandem est.
>I liked ISPF much better, but that was because I grew up with it.
I grew up with a lot of tools that I've discarded for something
better. I use TSPF on my PC because I have *not* found something
better, not because it is familiar. I've used both ISPF/PDF EDIT and
XEDIT; each has features I want that the other is missing. I'm not
prepared to say that either is better than the other.
>I could see from what others told me that there was some things that
>could be done better in XEDIT than ISPF.
Absolutely; I've done such things.
>This was from people who had worked with XEDIT for a long period of
>time before ever seeing ISPF.
I saw SPF[2] before I saw XEDIT; that didn't prevent me from
appreciating XEDIT.
>I don't think you can say one editor is necessarily better than the
>other, although if you came up with an objective set of criteria,
I have an objective set of criteria; that doesn't help. ISPF meets
some, XEDIT meets others. Both fail on criteria that SuperWylbur®
satisfies. I don't know of a single editor that meets all of my
criteria.
[1] No, not 029, that came later.
[2] The name ISPF came later.
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