I wasn't proposing a change in the defaults; I was proposing a new SET option, e.g., SET NOEDIT, to change the TRUNC behavior. And, yes, I know that a macro can play with the setting: BTDT,GTTS (no scars, just the tee shirt.) But it's SET PENDING that makes XEDIT a joy to edit under.
What I want is for me to be able to type into column 72 but for, E.G., CHANGE, CINSERT, to not shift anything into it. My only real concern for defaults is when I have to support other users; whatever defaults confuses them lest is best, and won't affect my edit sessions because I tweak my profiles. And, no, I've never been able to convince them to RTFM :-( -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Alan Altmark [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 4, 2022 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: XEDIT assembler continuation lines On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 14:35:41 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >That is not a workaround for the problem that I'm addressing. Consider the >command > > CHANGE /FOO/FOOBARBAZ/ > >on a line with few spaces. With TRUNC 72, text can spill over into the >continuation column. The change I'm suggesting is that there be a new mode in >which > > 1. Any type of insert or string replacement has no effect beyond the > truncation column > 2. Data keyed in beyond the replacement column are retained And I would counter-propose that you create a CHANGE XEDIT macro that does what you want (I was trying to illustrate that a macro can play with the settings). It's not that I'm averse to the idea of a change in XEDIT. In fact, I like "smart" behavior. But it turns out that mucking with defaults has its risks. VM Development was burned by that a couple of years ago when they changed one of the other default behaviors in XEDIT to make life easier. Alan Altmark IBM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
