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Editors similar to the one in Mainframes


I have been using an editor in Mainframes (ISPF) which I'm very much comfortable with. Now I'm working on a unix system and I'm forced to use VI. VI is good but since I got used to the editor in Mainframes, I'm having a hard time due to the difference in the command set. Is there an editor in unix which is similar to the editor in mainframes?


Solution

  • It looks like there's at least one free one still maintained: Hybrid Editor XE. There are some dead ones and commercial ones at This page, including a commercial offering called uni-SPF.

    You might want to google ISPF Unix or SPF Linux or something similar.