On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:10:51 +0000, Rob Scott wrote:
>
>(3) Automatically stripping trailing blanks from the first line would require 
>SDSF to have knowledge of the syntax of the command or some sort of awareness 
>of whether quotes or double-quotes are in effect and unbounded and if so, is 
>this meaningful or not. This is not something that SDSF wants to get involved 
>in as the text is freeform and what might appear to be apparent strange values 
>may be expected by the receiving user or ISV software product that processes 
>the command.
>
No!  Don't think of "stripping trailing blanks".  Simply don't append blanks 
when
the input field contained NULs (which the 3270 protocol doesn't transmit to the
host.  Some emulators deviate from this.)

>The lack of "insert mode" across both lines is frustrating, but I am not sure 
>there is a solution to that apart from a wide screen panel that has a single 
>input field. This would only provide relief for people running wide screen 
>3270 modes and most of our users are 43x80.
>
A field needn't be restricted to a single line.  Those two lines should be
formatted as a single field.

-- gil

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