If you like ISPF (like me!) have a look at LSPF at https://github.com/daniel64/lspf .
If it seems tricky to build, I have a Docker container at https://hub.docker.com/r/rvjansen/lspf/tags?page=1&ordering=last_updated René > On 28 Feb 2021, at 12:04, David Spiegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi David, > I like VI(m) too. > I'd like to point out, however, that ISPF and XEDIT allow the user to > restrict edits to a column range. > This capability AFAIK is ONLY available on Mainframe. > > Regards, > David > >> On 2021-02-28 02:45, David Crayford wrote: >>> On 27/02/2021 8:22 am, Tom Brennan wrote: >>> You take that back!! :) >>> >>> Sorry... I just used vi a minute ago and although I finally remembered >>> shift-g to move to the bottom, I had to goggle how to move back to the top. >>> gg Of course! It's so obvious. >> >> >> :1 will also jump to the top. 'g' isn't a command, it's used to escape >> although people assume it's goto as it's used to jump around the buffer. >> >> I can remember when I first started learning vim I didn't find it >> particularly intuitive. Once I got over the initial learning curve it all >> made perfect sense. People like vim because its design philosophy echos that >> of Unix. In both Unix and in vim, you have a collection of atomic commands >> that perform one task well. More complicated tasks are done by combining the >> smaller predefined tasks. For example, the vim command dl deletes the next >> character, dw deletes the next word, and db deletes the previous word. >> Here, d represents the delete operator and must be followed by a movement >> task. lt means move to the next character. w for the next word and b for the >> previous word. d2b will delete the previous 2 words. dtx will delete every >> character up to the next x in the current line. Once you grok this you >> won't want to use another editor as you will find them unproductive. I also >> use Slickedit and Intellij IDEA and I have Vim emulation running in both. >> The key design is maximum economy of keystrokes. Your hand should be glued >> to the home row. I've remapped the Windows caps lock key to ESC (single key) >> and CNTL (multiple keys) to make this easier. >> >> BTW, no need to google. Vim has excellent help. Just type :h motion and use >> CNTL-] to follow links. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> . > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
