On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:19:13 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > >When I'm in XEDIT (or more likely KEDIT, these days) and do a FIND BANANA >when I mean /BANANA I grumble and laugh. > Can't you front-end that with a macro?
I have used a vendor product that tried to be intuitive at the expense of compatibility. with real XEDIT, I ws accustomed to COMMAND QUIT to bypass confirmation. With that product I needed to do [COMMAND] QQUIT. But in CMS XEDIT, QQUIT is a synonym. But I would never have done what IBM did: to make QUIT a synonym for something else when the QUIT command is native. Even as I loathe UNIX admins who create aliases for rm, mv, ls, ... in /etc/profile. The XEDIT behavior that irritates me most is that even when BANANA is visible in the window and could merely be highlighted, XEDIT scrolls to center BANANA. I worked around that with an elaborate set of macros. They broke with a later release of XEDIT. I gave up. When I first encountered ISPF, case-sensitive search was the default. IBM changed that to case-insensitive, retaining the "T" modifier (for compatibility?) but removing its mention in the documentation, even though it retains an effect. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
