Pinnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is a call to all the XEDIT freaks that have been punking ISPF the last >few days to put your money where your mouth is and submit some SHARE >requirements for the ISPF editor. I get sick and tired of all the XEDIT >freaks saying how XEDIT is way better than ISPF, but they never back it up >with specifics. If XEDIT was so great, submit requirements for ISPF so we >can get the features you want into the ISPF editor. Maybe XEDIT was better >because it used " and "" for Repeat and RRepeat block, or maybe it was >because copy and move targets used F for Following instead of A for After or >P for Preceding instead of B for Before. Real productive.
>So quit B&M'ing about how ISPF sucks compared to XEDIT, and submit some >requirements. If not, STF up. Couple problems: 1) Most of us "XEDIT freaks" have little ISPF experience. In fact, the crossover seems to be amazingly small: I've given my Exploiting XEDIT pitch at SHARE at least a half-dozen times, and every time, I've asked for someone who's an ISPF user in the audience to let me know what their compatibility complaints are (note that this is going in the REVERSE direction -- making XEDIT look/feel like ISPF) and gotten nothing in response. 2) Isn't TSO/ISPF development pretty well dead? 3) We XEDIT mavens "just know" that XEDIT is better! (ducking...) Yes, I know you were specifically challenging folks who'd said XEDIT was better recently. What I suspect is that for the average user, ISPF and XEDIT are equally productive: for the maven, the one you're more familiar with is more powerful. Objectively analyzed, XEDIT *may* be more powerful because its macros are better integrated. But since the community of folks who are expert on BOTH seems to be about zero, we may never know... ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
