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

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