By the way, you hit this nail on the head regarding the 2 reasons spf editors rule imho. Never seen a better way to view hex and the combination of line and edit commands is near optimal.
I have 7 years of vi experience under my belt, too. I feel comfortable with both and think my comparison of the 2 is objective.
Just ask a good vi guy to find all the occurances of 'Abc' in column 52 and see how long it takes him. Then, just for fun, ask him to change all of those occurances(in column 52 of course) to 'Xyz':)
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
I use The Hybrid Editor XE in windows, freedos, and linux. I have been using it for a few years now. It runs great on all of those platforms. In fact, I'm the person who posted it to wikipedia, planetmvs, and a few others. It was pretty much unadvertised but since it's the only opensource, multiplatform option I know of and it works very well, I decided to try to promoted it.
I have yet to try it with mvs + hercules but I will very soon.
The author is responsive and actively updates it. And his English is pretty good. But in case you can't get him to respond quick enough or for any other reason, you can post questions here if you like and I'll reply to the best of my ability.
Slashdot Mirror
By the way, you hit this nail on the head regarding the 2 reasons spf editors rule imho. Never seen a better way to view hex and the combination of line and edit commands is near optimal. I have 7 years of vi experience under my belt, too. I feel comfortable with both and think my comparison of the 2 is objective. Just ask a good vi guy to find all the occurances of 'Abc' in column 52 and see how long it takes him. Then, just for fun, ask him to change all of those occurances(in column 52 of course) to 'Xyz' :)
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
I use The Hybrid Editor XE in windows, freedos, and linux. I have been using it for a few years now. It runs great on all of those platforms. In fact, I'm the person who posted it to wikipedia, planetmvs, and a few others. It was pretty much unadvertised but since it's the only opensource, multiplatform option I know of and it works very well, I decided to try to promoted it. I have yet to try it with mvs + hercules but I will very soon. The author is responsive and actively updates it. And his English is pretty good. But in case you can't get him to respond quick enough or for any other reason, you can post questions here if you like and I'll reply to the best of my ability.