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From: DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Unix vs. Mainframe editors
Message-ID: <91078.190732DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 00:07:32 GMT
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As an IBM mainframe programmer for ten years (and unix-literate, too!),
I'm one of the people with a 'significantly customized' editor environ-
ment, and I probably tweak the configuration at least once or twice a
month.  I dealt with the original EDIT (picture 'ed' with slightly-
more-meaningful commands), EDGAR (full screen, nice, but not as good
as XEDIT, and five+ releases of XEDIT, including three with REXX.  In
addition, I run KEDIT (an XEDIT work-alike) on MSDOS.

XEDIT is quite customizable - I've seen it as the display-manager for
news-readers (both local and NNTP), data entry panels, the "guts" of
sophisticated mail-handling software, and probably almost as many
uses as you could find for GNU Emacs.

Until my job moves to a primarily-unix environment (not likely to
happen - they're happy with me as an IBM systems programmer), I'll
probably choose XEDIT over any editor currently available for Unix.
And until they get me a terminal that talks ASCII at a decent speed
(as opposed to a 3270 or a 2400-baud modem-connected line), it'll
probably stay that way.

BTW, has anyone written XEDIT-like bindings or configuration for
EMACS ?

Doug
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Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center,         doug@ysub.bitnet
Youngstown State University, Youngstown,  OH 44555  doug@ysub.ysu.edu
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