On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 10:59:55 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
>    ...
>How much of what the macro was doing was "glue logic" (if it was
>in REXX) or scanning through the file line by line, compared with
>calling editor commands (which one would expect to be fairly
>efficient)?

On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:45:04 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
>    ...
>Alternatively, maybe you never wrote any edit macros in anything other
>than REXX?  ISTR that one could use any SAA language, eg COBOL or
>Assembler, apart from CLIST/REXX.
>
If so, I'd expect the limiting factor to be Edit's parsing the command string.

-- gil

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