On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:47:03 -0500, Shane Ginnane wrote:
>
>Now that this has finally been put to bed, the length of the thread
>illustrates vividly the issue I have with using DF/SORT.
>It has grown (and changed) over the years in an apparent attempt to be "all
>things to all men" - and is damn near unusable as a quick solution. Unless you
>already have a job set up somewhere that is "close enough" and can be quickly
>modified, or can find something in the smart tricks papers.
>Works a treat when it works though ...
>
Emacs is like that. Web browsers are like that, nowadays (and emacs embeds its
own browser). Any utility that embeds its own editor rather than allowing a
pluggable replacement is like that. (ISPF for CMS allows a choice of PDF or
XEDIT
although 2 is not one of the only three nice numbers. ISPF for z/OS allows no
such flexibility (or does it? some ISPF wizard might jump in and explain how it
can be done.) I'd love to be able to select vi as my editor under ISPF (but
not all
the time.))
The Swiss Army Hammer.
There's a famous 1983 paper by Rob Pike(blurb only; copyright prohibits more) :
http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/
UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful
... sympathizing with our view.
-- gil
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