On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:27:51 -0600, Alan Altmark wrote: >On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:47:31 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >>Bummer. Maybe someone from IBM can shed light on the issue. > >I speculate that this was to prevent INSERT and CHANGE from overlaying column >72 by accident when editing in line mode. When you're ready to put in >continuation characters, do TRUNC 72 # CL :72 # COVERLAY X # REPEAT n # TRUNC >71. > AYFK‽ I'll assume that was a macro, perhaps a PF key.
Wouldn't it be useful if after marking the continuation it inserted a following blank line to contain the rest of the statement? >Naturally we all updated our profiles once 3270s showed up, so it turned into >a non-issue. > What had you used previously? A command line editor? Will the tyranny of the 026 and 701 ever be overthrown? Has anyone submitted an RFE to incorporate FLOWASM into HLASM; even make it the default? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
