It could do with a rename. If you search the internet for "THE editor" you get hits on films! Hessling Editor finds it. Colin
On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 at 14:45, Rick Troth < [email protected]> wrote: > I strongly second the suggestion for THE. > Turns out that it is in (some) Linux package collections. (Meaning that > you can prolly install it with standard distro methods.) > > I've been building it for years for all platforms that I run: > Linux-amd64, Linux-s390x, FreeBSD, even Slolaris. Works great! And I > have a profile that works same on XEDIT as with THE. Ahhh... > > I find myself switching among three editors when in Unix/Linux/POSIX/USS > land: pico/nano (most of the time), THE (when doing serious coding), and > vi when I need one of the tricks that it does better than the others. > > > -- R; <>< > > > > > On 10/2/25 7:31 PM, Ben Huntsman wrote: > > Hi Steve- > > Not quite SPF, but have you looked at The Hessling Editor ( > https://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/)? It runs under ooRexx, which > there is a version of for AIX... > > > > THE is more of an xedit clone, but regardless it should be more > mainframe-like than vi! > > > > If you try it please let us know what you think. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -Ben > > > > ________________________________ > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on > behalf of Steve Beaver <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2025 4:26 PM > > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > Subject: AIX Question > > > > 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 > > -- > -- R; <>< > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
