FW: What is Eclipse Orion

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So you really must have liked WordStar then.  All those cranky control key combinations.....

Then again VI and VIM both have that problem, don't they?

That's where I really like Orion because it gets past all of that falderal.  I just wish more customers would let me leave it running.


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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

-----Original Message-----
From: DrFranken [mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 10:48 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion; Jim Oberholtzer
Subject: Re: What is Eclipse Orion

VIM Really? No no no. JOE! Now there's an easy to use editor. VIM? That thing has taught me new swear words. It's horrifying!!

         - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 10/11/2017 11:24 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> Jack,
>
> True enough!  I've tried it and it works well.
>
> Our customers usually insist on the source code staying on the system 
> we are working on, as opposed to us downloading it to our systems to 
> do the work (RDi is the exception to the rule there) so Orion is an 
> excellent way to do that, without having to endure EDTF.
>
> Now that BASH is available and VI is on the system we use those occasionally
> too if the web instance for Orion is problematic to the customer.   I'm
> hoping VIM is announced and supported by IBM soon, and yes we could 
> download it and get it running but it's not the same....