On 2015-06-25 06:30, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <[email protected]>, on 06/23/2015
>    at 09:24 AM, Charles Mills said:
> 
>> I know I can do a command line CUT and PASTE but I have a lot of
>> edits to do where a basic CC/A type copy would be more convenient.
> 
> Does it have to be ISPF/PDF EDIT? If you have a THE port available, it
> will do the job.
>  
Has THE actually been ported to z/OS?

On 2015-06-25 07:31, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>  on 06/23/2015 at 03:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin said:
> 
>> Y'know there's grist here for the SER mill here.  And any refutation
>> that begins "Because [implementation details] ..." is unacceptable.
> 
> It's also the way that it's been documented since Old Man Noach
> cornered the market in gopher wood. It's an enhancement request, even
> though the original design lacked foresight.
> 
> IMHO the enhancement to request is the full functionality of XEDIT,
> either as a prot, an ISPF enhancement or a separate editor obsoleting
> both. Whatever, it won't happen unless and until someone presents a
> compelling business case.
>  
But the refutation of that, as of 64-bit assembler, will be, "We've been
doing fine without that for nigh on 50 years.  Why does someone suddenly
think we need it now?"

-- gil

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