There are many ISPF, Wylbur and XEDIT clones; I don't know of one that can't deal with column ranges. There are even some free clones.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of David Spiegel [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2021 6:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug 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
