Re: FVWM: FVWM on a high density screen -> FvwmForm

Lucio Chiappetti <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, Dan Espen wrote:
>> Lucio Chiappetti <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> Yes, it's called Regina, and is required if one wants to use THE (The
>>> Hessling Editor) as editor, which is a very good Unix clone of the IBM
>>> VM/CMS XEDIT editor.
>
>> I remember XEDIT, from a shop that was using CMS for a while.
>> I started it up and it looked like hell.
>> Most distracting was a column scale right across the middle of the
>> screen.  Fortunately, I didn't run away and hide.
>
>   (SET) SCALE OFF (better if in one's profile)
>
>   the scale is generally annoying, but can be useful if one is editing
>   a very wide file and wants to limit visibility and/or editing to
>   columns n-m (SET VERIFY n m) ... what other editors off the possibility
>   to limit editing to columns or sets of lines with or without a given
>   pattern or to select and remove entire columns ?

ISPF edit.
I don't remember XEDIT well (1978), but I think the 2 editors are very close.

I never fooled with any of the ISPF like editors for Windows but I
suppose SPFLite would do the job well.

Of course it's well known that it's impossible to name an edit feature
that Emacs doesn't have.

:)

I can't remember if I moved the scale or just turned it off.

Speaking of scales, I remember when I started using an early version of
Emacs on an HP terminal.  The HP terminal had a pretty extensive
line drawing character set.  I set up a scale that looked exactly
like a ruler across the top of the screen.  numbers, line graduations,
and a box around the whole thing.

That was to be able to edit MVS Assembler and be able to see
col 10, 16, 72.


>> I gave it another try and found all the hooks and toggles to customize
>> it to my liking
>
>   Yes, it is in my list of favourite easily user-customizable s/w (like
>   THE, fvwm, alpine ...)

Ah, another Fvwm fan.
I think it's interesting that the appearance of my Fvwm
desktop hasn't changed since I submitted my original
screen shot in 2003:

https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Screenshots/2003-08-28_Dan-desk-1280x1024/screenshot.gif

Well, I narrowed down the borders and tiled the menus with that blue
pixmap on the borders.

Other than that, I do not have to suffer with my desktop changing
based on the disto's whims of the month.

-- 
Dan Espen