Well said, Gary! Though of course XEDIT *is* the best :) I probably said this already, and it ain't nobody's fault, but my biggest problem with editors is when they're similar: ISPF and XEDIT both have FIND commands, which do different things. vi has / for search, like XEDIT (but not ISPF). Etc. I can reprogram my brain pretty easily to use i and o and like that in vi because it looks so different, but I find myself doing FIND in XEDIT when I mean / and / in ISPF when I mean FIND etc.
We obviously need a government Department of Editors! /s -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Gary Eheman Sent: Friday, October 3, 2025 10:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AIX Question Prefaced with the old analogy that "Editors are like philosophy and religion. Mine is best and you won't convince me otherwise." As a person who is asked to login and fix things on all flavors (sometimes *very* ancient releases) of "*ix" and "*ux", the beauty of "vi" is that I can count on it being present, and it works. I need that consistency in my life. If I need a little more text manipulation power, I can reach regular expressions and awk or sed or both for the same availability reason. Every editor exists because a developer thought they needed a better one than the one they were using. It is too easy to bad mouth any editor. I resist. See my opening sentence. On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 18:26:10 -0500, Steve Beaver <[email protected]> wrote: >Some of you may not remember that there used to be a PC product named SPFPC. > >Has anyone ever seen an equivalent product for AIX or Linux. > >VI is a uselessly pain > > > >Sent from my iPhone > >No one said I could type with one thumb >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
