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

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