In a recent note, Craddock, Chris said:

> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:28:38 -0400
> 
> But... while you can scroll left and right and play games with inserts
> and shifts and nulls and so forth, only a masochist would claim it works
> well for unstructured data and long lines. There are far better tools
> for editing plain old text ...
> 
Heck, even XEDIT can display and edit a long line as a single field
which spans several screen lines.  Why, why can't ISPF learn that
basic trick?  (No, I won't accept "fundamental design paradigm" as
an excuse.)

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