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From: lewis@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Pierre Lewis)
Subject: Re: Unix vs. Mainframe editors
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.140959.2939@scrumpy@.bnr.ca>
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References:  <1991Mar19.210035.2232@wrkgrp.COM>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 14:09:59 GMT

In article <1991Mar19.210035.2232@wrkgrp.COM>, ets@wrkgrp.COM (Edward T
Spire) writes:

|> (I have seen mainframe editor environments that are just as heavily
|> customized as any you find in Unix.)

Mine is, with loads of specialized REXX macros.

And I, for one, have always liked XEDIT and think it's certainly a very
powerful editor (it can sort a file much faster that sort(1) on a Sparc).
Even today (after a few years in the Unix world), if I had to chose a single
editor (to go to that famous desert island), it would probably be XEDIT
(surely over vi or emacs).  Granted, for someone with no mainframe
experience, it's something of a shock.  But for a person migrating from IBM
mainframe, it will be natural.

--
Pierre LEWIS
Internet:            bnrmtl!lewis@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU

Lubarsky's law of cybernetic entomology:  There is always one more bug!