I'm using x3270 on Ubuntu 16.04. The zOS does not have a good editor and having to write a lot of code and fixing it is a pain.
I want to write code on my computer and copy it into x3270 window.
Is there a way to do this?
x3270 is a blocked based terminal interface and can be used. The approach would be to cut and paste code. Since you mentioned z/OS I assume you are using the TSO and ISPF. ISPF Edit (Option 2 by default) allows for a Text Edit Command (TE) so you can cut and paste larger blocks of text.
When you press enter you will see. You can then position the cursor and paste the text.
Sorry, I just had some assembler source handy but as you can see you can paste a large block of code. Its cumbersome though.
Personally, this is more of a stop gap measure for edits of limited size. There are better solutions.
I personally use VSCode on my local machine. There is a plugin for VSCode from an open source project called Zowe that provides a plugin for VSCode in the VSCode marketplace Visual code Extension for Zowe. This is extension allows for editing code from z/OS on your local system (I use a MacBook Pro) and facilitates the file transfer for you. This is my preferred option. It does require that z/OSMF is installed and configured. You'll need to check that setup on your system.
The final option is to use SFTP to transfer the file. SFTP will allow transfer to MVS and USS file systems and provides an ASCII to EBCDIC conversion as well.
SCP will only transfer files to a USS based filesystem and is an option if that fits your needs.
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We teach a Deep Learning course on our supercomputers, and one step which is prone for improvement/automation is the connection to the machines and text editing.
Our users come with extremely distinct backgrounds: from people who set up their own linux clusters to people who barely understand the concept of a text editor, given they always edited files on jupyter or collab.
What I would like to do is a double-click package users can download and it configures VS code to connect to our machines, downloads dependencies (like the extension for ssh), generate new ssh keys, and gives support for viewing image files, csv and so on.
My impression is that the way of doing so is, instead of a full package containing vs code and our configurations, would be to make an extension of VS code itself which does that, but I have no idea where to begin or if such a thing even makes sense.
Any pointers are welcome.
I have been trying to figure this out, and cannot determine if it is possible or not.
Essentially, I commonly work with a VSCode window containing many files located on an external network drive (CIFS mount in Linux). When these files are changed "on-disk", they do not update in the editor until I switch focus to each file by changing the active editor tab. This means I have to switch tabs, wait for the update to process, and then repeat for all open tabs (could be 10 or 20 tabs).
Is there anyway to force all open editors to refresh or revert at once? That would ease my workflow a lot for examining differences between these open files on the fly. There's a command to "Revert File", but that only works on the open file, rather than all currently-opened ones. I've looked in the settings and browsed for an extension, but I can't find anything to accomplish this task.
Well, You can try to map the external network drive to local disk and give appropriate permission for read and write restriction.
If your computer has firewall or anti virus installed, then you must exclude vs access restriction from fw/av inspection.
Otherwise you can also improve your network adapter performance, associate to buffers, throughput, packet latency, etc.
Alternatively, you can use any source control, so your codes could be persist locally and could be synchronized from/to source control server.
Hope this could helps.
I've read the TRAMP manual and dozens of forums across the web but I couldn't find an answer to this question. I am trying to set up a link in org-mode that transfers a file from a remote server to my local machine (or vice-versa).
According to the manual I have to write something like
/scp:user#host:filepathonremotemachine
and that's it. No specification of where the file should be moved to, which is weird.
I've tried to do it this way and it simply opened the file (as if I was using ssh); tried other combinations also, without any luck.
There is a specific reason for why I am trying to do this with tramp and not a shell:command link. Any help is very welcome
UPDATE
Apparently TRAMP is less useful than what it promises. That leaves me with the shell:command link option. The problem then revolves around avoiding the openssh window that pops out. The closest solution I found was here and it resumes to setting up an ssh-agent. I am not very familiar with this procedure and I would prefer to use the authinfo.gpg authentication method. Do I have this option? Thanks.
Tramp itself offers just alternative implementations of native Emeacs functions. In this sense, it is dumb, as every library, because it doesn't know what the caller wants.
I'm not an org-mode specialist, but could you please show, which kind of link you have in mind? Without any remoteness, just a link which copies a file locally. Replacing local file names with remote ones will be easy then.
I assume, you need something like an external link, evaluating Lisp code. Like
elisp:(copy-file "/path/src" "/path/target")
The following works (for some definition of "works"):
* link to copy a file
[[shell:scp remote.host.com:/path/to/file /tmp][scp]]
But you must have arranged for passwordless login to the remote host beforehand (e.g. ssh-copy-id your public key to the remote): given that, there is no output in the org buffer, no openssh popup, just the standard question from org-mode asking if you really want to execute the shell command and the file is copied quietly to its destination.
Practically all of the exercises in my introductory Perl book have so far required taking input, which is causing me some challenges with Sublime Text 3. I set up the custom build file from this post to run scripts directly and I've also installed REPL on top of that, but I'm still unable to provide input through the bottom console.
Is there a way to enable input for scripts built via Ctrl+B, preferably with the console messages getting a little less in the way? I'm currently stuck with having to fire up the terminal every time, which doesn't make for a particularly smooth learning experience.
This doesn't really help you with your Sublime issue, but you mention firing up a terminal every time isn't helping you learn - here's the way I do it when I'm either learning or rapidly prototyping: Simply setup a folder on your local machine, called sync or something. Create a similar folder on your terminal server.
Now use an app (I use WinSCP and use Keep Remote Directory Up To Date setting) to sync. Every time you press save in your text editor, the new script is automatically uploaded to your terminal server, you can now just alt+tab to your terminal and run the script. Works very well for me and enabled really easy rapid prototyping.
… similar to the StatET plugin that allows you to run R code from Eclipse?
I tried googling it but nothing useful has turned up.
None that I know. If you're a CLI junky or willing to use Emacs, you might find limited support through the ESS package and the ado-mode. This is what I used on Mac OS X when I want to run short snippet of code, or use Stata in batch mode, but there's no interactive graphical output (you can just save graphics as PDF as usual). The ado-mode provides basic syntax highlighting and can send region or buffer to a running instance of Stata GUI program (not the executable file, stata-*, that is being used by ESS).
Here are two screenshots of (top) edition of code in Emacs with the ado-mode, and (bottom) an interactive Stata session (no plot produced).
Some notes on text editors for Stata users provides a list of text editors that can be used with Stata (without interactive facilities, though).
There seems to be a promising project starting up here:
http://mas802.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/stata-plugin-for-eclipse-alpha/