Cull 0.1 review
DownloadI used to work on mainframes.
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I used to work on mainframes. Cobol, TSO, and ISPF. For those of you who don’t know, instead of having a PC on your desk, you used to have a terminal. A keyboard and a monitor attached to the mainframe. When you hit enter, the whole screen would be submitted to be processed and you could often do several things a one time.
ISPF was the ‘display engine’, through a combination of templates and its own goofy language, you could make interfaces. There was an editor which I cannot imagine that I used to get anything done on. You would get a page at a time with space to the left of each line that you put place editing commands on (delete this line, move this line and the 3 after, etc.) and when you hit enter, it would send the whole page, applying any changes you made as well and any editing commands and then send back the page. Really. I’m not making this up!
Anyway, to get somewhere vaguely near the point, one thing I actually miss about it was what you would get when you did a find on something. You would get back a ‘collapsed’ version of the file where only the matching lines were shown and the non-matching were collapsed to something like “”. You could also have it display a few line around the match for context. Cull replicates this to a small extent.
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