Duaine Hechler wrote:
Since I've been out of the mainframe world for about 13 years, what happened to the mainframe style "full screen" text editors being standard in Linux. Like, XEDIT, KEDIT, ISPF.
They were never ported. OS/2 or VisualAge came with LPEX, which was very good. I think it's in WebSphere now.
And I know about vi, kate, and kwrite BUT these are NOT full screen "text" editors - these are full screen "line" editor. Unlike, XEDIT, where you can move, copy, insert, delete, etc - easily - "blocks" of lines
You can certainly do that in kate too, just as in vi and emacs.
I know versions of these exist, like the "THE" editor. However, why haven't these become the "standard" ? (Even XEDIT, starts basically in character basic "console" mode (no graphics capabilities needed), which could be run in a Linux console session)
Because Unix and Linux already have vi as _the_ standard. No need for another standard.
Having a "system programming" background, I just don't understand why anyone would put up with a "line" editor.
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