On Friday, 08/21/2015 at 01:02 EDT, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > And most WWW text entry processes likewise treat newline as a > character that can be inserted to split a line, or removed to > join two lines. They got there by survival of the fittest. > Imagine any alternative such as a "Join lines" and a "Split > line" button associated with each text entry field. Only 3270 > fails to support Split and Join as local editing operations,
The problem is that a 3270 has no idea what a "line" is. It only knows about formatted fields. (This is what you get when you're invented in a time when I/O is slow and CPUs are expensive.) I do think that the 3270 suffers from a lack of "vertical fields". The 3270 Entry Assist Feature (DOC mode) can help hide that, but having a field that the 3270 can reflow vertically would be great. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott
