Re: Editors

"Richard" <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> and make column and row type commands easy.
>
>> PC editors are designed around variable length files.
>
> _Some_ PC editors are designed around ..., _some_ make column and row
> type commands easy.
Do you have an example of one that does excellent vertical blocking cut and
pastes that runs on Windows XP that is not overly expensive ? This is not
a DocDwarf *show* me evidence question, it's a, "I really want to know"
question.


>> What's easy and what's hard depend on the environment.
>
> No. What is easy and what is hard depends mostly on what you are used
> to. I would probably find TSO/SPF frustratingly hard to use, error
> prone and clunky. Whereas my 'fingers do the thinking' when I use the
> editors my brain has been trained to use.
I always prefer my brain to do the thinking my fingers do the typing...

It's not just what is easy - I use different editors for different languages
based solely on the environment I am in.
I use ISPF for COBOL because I find I am more often doing COBOL type
functions - line copies, overlays (I do this a lot because I tend to like to
comment whole sections).

When I use C++, C# I used MS Visual Studio because it is integrated into a
very nicely organized IDE. It supports comments much easier with a "comment
selection"

I use Websphere / Eclipse for Java because I am used to the view structure.

In the latter two cases the integrated environment is more important than
the editor. I have SlickEdit but I have found that I don't use it (maybe
that _is_ the answer to my question above). My COBOL is also limited to
z/OS. Writing java code using ISPF is a crime.

A big thing for me is autocomplete - I am more than happy without auto
complete for COBOL and PL/I because I am used to the limited language
scope - however, I would never even _consider_ an editor for Java without
this function.

My biggest criticism of TSO ISPF is more based on the emulators......how
many occasions will I use someone elses machine and hit <END> and it deletes
to the end of the line and not just move to it......When did someone decide
that <END> means <DELETE TO THE END>?!?

JCE


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