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From: jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Xedit is better than vi and emacs
Message-ID: <23798@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 20:22:04 GMT
References: <1991Apr21.011316.13111@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1991Apr23.024525.13795@cs.ucla.edu> <1991Apr24.155049.21710@njitgw.njit.edu>
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In article <1991Apr24.155049.21710@njitgw.njit.edu> ken@hertz.njit.edu (ken ng cccc) writes:
>In article <1991Apr23.024525.13795@cs.ucla.edu> gast@maui.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) writes:
>:BTW, another poster keeps talking about opening up lines.  What do you
>:mean by opening them up?
>:david
>
><stuff deleted - see previous post> 
>
>Now, if you only wanted to know what the args for 'foo' were, you only need
>the hidden version of the display (also presuming you pick better variable
>names).  This beats having to scroll through the definition every bloody
>time you wonder what the args to this or another procedure were. 
>
>Note: sometime last year (?) there was talk of this revolutionary new
>concept called a 'folding editor'.  From the description it sounds like
>something that XEDIT had for years.  But since I have not used it, I cannot
>be sure.


Ken, you are correct that XEDIT has had line exclusion for about 10 years...
In addition, ISPF (TSO's principal 3270-based screen editor) has had it
for about 12 years... In addition, ISPF is better at handling exclusion
by levels of indentation...
 
However, better than either is Mansfield's KEDIT for the PC which gives you
all of XEDIT's capabilities plus key-sensitive scrolling and function keys
(unlike the 3270-based XEDIT and ISPF which limit you to the standard 24
function keys)...

In addition, KEDIT comes with a complete integrated REXX-like facility
called KEXX which allows you to write macros... In addition, you can get
their Personal REXX and use it with KEDIT to make more powerful macros.
I have several Pascal-sensitive macros in REXX with KEDIT that do much
better line exclusion and reshowing, based on the use of keywords, etc.
 
Not related to Mansfield Software, just a VERY satisfied customer for
over 7 years...
 
Jon Rosen
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