Mostly, that there is no HOME key to return you quickly to the command line
at bottom
You can HOME and TAB back twice, or take your hands off the keyboard and use
the mouse, but both those paths are impediments to quickly navigating thru
several open ISPF windows (I use START on PF2 and SWAP NEXT in all my key
lists and typically have 4-5 or more windows active.
The default settings seem to be targeting mouse-centric navigation (which I
loath). Those I observe using a mouse to navigate ISPF frequently land on a
non-entry panel byte and subsequently lock their keyboards. Then, since
their keyboard definitions are also PC-centric, they will open a separate
keypad for a RESET key, use it, and relock their keyboard entry by hitting
SPACE instead of TAB, then tell me why they hate the mainframe.
Proper emulator keyboard mapping and ISPF settings, plus a bit of gentle
guidance, would make many new ISPF users much happier and more productive.
It's not that much different than the adaptations expected of mainframe
users needing to work in the Unix world.
Just my $0.02 worth.
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From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:57 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Eclipse Assembler syntax plugin (was: z390 ...)
On Jan 20, 2011, at 15:49, Michael McCawley wrote:
Whoever developed the CUA ISPF/PDF settings (command @ bottom, tab to
pull-down, etc.) certainly never used ISPF for better productivity.
What's wrong with command @ bottom? I suppose I'm not a highly
proficient typist; I like to have the command line and my fingertips
in my central vision simultaneously.
But I wish that when I select command @ bottom in option 0 it
would apply uniformly to all panels.
-- gil
