On Feb 1, 2011, at 07:48, Chris Mason wrote: > > > Anyhow, here is what I thought I remembered from the 3174 Establishment > Controller Functional Description, GA23-0218-11: > > http://publibfp.dhe.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/cn7a7003/2.4.4.3 > > <quote> > > 2.4.4.3 Using Insert Mode with Null/Space Processing > ... > When null/space processing is active and a character is inserted on an > unformatted screen, only the characters between the cursor and the end of > the screen are shifted to the right. Characters cannot be wrapped past the > end of the screen ... > </quote> > Kinda nice. But does "end of the screen" mean extreme lower right corner or right edge? It ought to be the end of the input field to support the case where that field spans multiple lines, as in the ISPF TSO Command Shell, or CMS XEDIT.
> And, by the way, it is even more "insert-friendly" than Paul Gilmartin > wanted. I wonder if your emulator "feature" is as solicitous. > I was pretty vague; merely noting that NULLS OFF is insert-hostile. How is the feature "more 'insert-friendly'"? Can ISPF activate null/space processing? I suspect that a person entering tabular material would want to deactivate the feature. -- gil
