On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 11:58:06 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >> I find Slick on Solaris way slow; marginally usable on a fast LAN; unusable >> via VPN. I think it's X11 overhead; feels as if it paints the screen >> pixel-by- >> pixel. > >Yes, I remember you mentioning that before. IIRC, the same could be said >for the z/OS X11, which Slickedit dropped. It's way to easy to use SMB >or NFS and run Slickedit on Windows/Mac/Linux. I edited an 8 GB binary >file, >scrolled to the bottom. Turned hex mode on, made and edit and saved the >file in a matter of seconds. Try that in Eclipse and the lights will dim! > Which confirms my suspicion that X11 is a culprit. But isn't Linux display X11 driven (but Ubuntu is moving a different direction)? How does it work with Linux X11 client and remote X11 server? (But why would anyone want to try that?)
>> How do you get to its ISPF emulation? Some of my colleages would >> treasure that. > >Tools->Options->Keyboard and Mouse->Emulation->ISPF > Neat! Thanks! Where's the command line? TAB doesn't move to the next field; it inserts a tab in the data. Hex shows ASCII, not EBCDIC. I need to try what it does with UTF-8. >> To me "full ISPF emulation" means macros in Rexx. No? Which Rexx? > >The scripting language is the proprietary SlickC which is a hybrid of >REXX, C and Smalltalk for the OO. It has a parse instruction and >implementes most of the REXX string handling functions. Slickedit has a > IOW, macros aren't portable. Does it have SUBmit? I suppose one could write a macro. >command line which is why I >love it so much. You can bind any keys to commands which gives you >serious productivity as opposed to the clunky mouse. Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
