On Jan 31, 2011, at 13:44, John Walker wrote: > Say, I have been noticing over the last year or so that i FREQUENTLY end up > with my edit setting set to NULLS ON. This is an annoying and aberrant > setting for any non-PC or non-unix use, which is to say ALL mainframe > applications and work. However, when I set it to off, it ends up being reset > somehow by ISPF. It seems that sometimes I am not even in browse or edit and > it still does it. How can I reset this obvious over-riding default which I > dislike? > ???
I couldn't _live_ with NULLS OFF. For example, when editing JCL (surely a non-PC and non-unix use), if I have NULLS OFF and attempt to insert a character, the keyboard locks and I must: o Press RESET to unlock the keyboard. o Press INSERT to reassert that mode. o Move the cursor past the end of the line. o Press ERASE EOF. o Move the cursor back to the intended insertion point. o Insert my character. Yucch! (But wouldn't it be neat if pressing INSERT MODE momentarily set NULLS ON?) (Usually, I just set NULLS ON; do my insertion; and hope that it doesn't end up being reset somehow by ISPF.) -- gil
