On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:15:09 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: >Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> I'd love to be able to select vi as my editor under ISPF (but not all >> the time.)) > >Now you made me think: vi using SNA would mean you need to send each >individual keypress to the mainframe and get a response. That might be >possible by having the terminal emulator tag a PA-key onto every >keystroke, sending a couple of bytes to a TGET that is set up to process >each character. Crazy... but with the fast networks and mainframes we >have these days, it just might be usable. > I was thinking more of popping up an XTERM window with DISPLAY=Desktop. vi works acceptably under Unix System Services; VTAM (but no SNA?). And there should be a "-wait" option -- if omitted, maintain an ISPF-style ENQ on the member for the duration, but unlock the 3270 keyboard/ISPF session.
>Then you have to find mainframe people who want to use vi. That's >probably the bigger issue :) > Perhaps easier to find vi (or emacs or gedit) people who are required to use the mainframe. There are probably a few on this list. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
