I've been using Ultraedit for 15+ years, and I'm getting tired of them ignoring my requests for a new feature. I shopping for a new editor, and I was wondering if Zeus has the following capability. This is modeled on the mainframe ISPF editor.
The ISPF editor can exclude lines from display. So can Ultraedit. But ISPF gives you ways to manipulate all of the lines with simple commands; Ultraedit does not. Specifically, with ISPF you can search for a string and either exclude it if it wasn't already, or unexclude if it was. So, you could exclude all the lines, then search for a string, resulting in a display of all the lines that contain that string. You could search for more strings if you chose. Then, you could delete either all of the remaining excluded lines, or all of the unexcluded ones. Either way, this made it very simple to take a large file and weed out all the stuff you don't care about.
So, does Zeus have that ability? Either natively (preferred), or via scripts?
Thanks
ISPF excluded lines
The ISPF editor can exclude lines from display.
Unfortunately there is no way to do this in Zeus
So, does Zeus have that ability? Either natively (preferred), or via scripts?
While there is a lot that can be done using the scripting, I suspect these requirements are a little too complex to be done easily using the Zeus script
But iIn researching the ISPF editor I can across the Windows clone: http://spflite.co.nr/
I did not download it to try, but I suspect it does would provide this functionality
Cheers Jussi