IFS editor

[davisty]

Hello,

Does anyone know of a good isf editor? An i5 (greenscreen) version.

Thanx,

[Scott M]

Re: IFS editor

EDTF, you can decide if it is good but it is a green screen one.

[GLS400]

Re: IFS editor

Hi Divisty:

You can access edtf by wrklnk .... opton 2

Best of Luck
GLS

[JonBoy]

Re: IFS editor

Hello,

Does anyone know of a good isf editor? An i5 (greenscreen) version.

Thanx,

Isn't "good" and "greenscreen" a contradiction in terms? <running and ducking>

On a more serious note I use EDTF when I have to and the IFS editing capabilities of RDi when I have real work that needs doing.

If price is an issue then I know NetBeans can do the job - not sure about a base Eclipse install.

[Scott Klement]

Re: IFS editor

EDTF is about the best you can do in green-screen -- but that's not saying much. The key problem I have with green screen editors is that stream files often have data that's too large for an 80 or even 132 column screen. That makes it really difficult to insert or delete data from a line of text in a green screen editor, since the emulator can't insert or delete data beyond a single screen -- so you play games with shifting part of the data over, then shifting the other part over... it's just really ugly.

But, that's pretty much all you can do on a 5250 screen, because of the way 5250 works. It sends the image of a single screen to the emulator, then lets the emulator handle all of the editing controls until enter or a function key is pressed. So it can't work with something larger than a screen, because it only knows about one screen at a time. But the server can't handle the editing to make ti work nicely, because editing is handed off to the emulator -- so it's just a technology that doens't work well with stream files.

But, EDTF is about the best you can do.

Otherwise, if you're able to use a mapped drive and a PC program (highly recommended) you might try Notepad++. It's free, and works very well.

[Henrik Rutzou]

Re: IFS editor

There are also PC based Sublime Text

http://www.sublimetext.com/

however it has a 70 USD pricetag

[Juergen_G]

Re: IFS editor

Hi,

i have found for "Sublime Text" Edtior a RPG Syntax Plugin:
http://www.system-method.com/node/893

Kind regards
Jürgen

[Rocky]

Re: IFS editor

A PC based one - since some have gone there - is available with RDi

[Scott Klement]

Re: IFS editor

[Rocky]

Re: IFS editor

Awww - not even 12 months... LOL

[tomholden]

Re: IFS editor

i personally prefer this one...

[Scott Klement]

Re: IFS editor

I knew you had a good one, but I couldn't find it with a quick Google, so I went with Batman :-)

[Poddys]

Re: IFS editor

Do you have to edit the files using a green screen editor?

Have you tried Notepad++ (free Windows editor)? It's far superior to the basic Windows editors, and gives you a whole host of additional functionality. It will also open large files (well 200mb at least).