There is an inherent flaw with the support of user written prefix
commands on Kedit that prevented me from migrating my most used macro
from CMS to Kedit. Kedit does not store the 'real name' of the prefixed
entered. It only stores the name of the macro actually invoked. I have
a prefix macro that is invoked by multiple names, such as M, C, I.
Within the macro I need to know which character was entered in the
prefix area for a specific line. Kedit performs a backward lookup and
always returns the the first synonym defined for the macro, so you don't
know what was really entered.
I used kedit for editing on my pc, I just can't use this one macro.
Tony Thigpen
Mike Beer wrote on 3/7/22 14:01:
Depending on what you need,
LPREFIX on KEDIT might be your command:
"The LPREFIX command places the text that you specify into the prefix area
of the focus line and then processes all pending prefix commands.
The LPREFIX command is equivalent to your moving the cursor to the prefix
area of the focus line, typing the text into the prefix area, and executing
the SOS DOPREFIX command (which is part of the definition of the F12 key
under INTERFACE CUA and of the Home key under INTERFACE CLASSIC). LPREFIX is
useful from within macros that need to execute prefix commands. It also
provides a way to enter and execute prefix commands when the prefix area is
turned off"
As an alternative WITH SET PENDING you might try Mark Hessling's THE (The
Hessling Editor).
http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/doc/commset/SETPENDING.html
Best regards
Mike
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I've used KEDIT, with Quercus REXX; it was all right, but I had been spoiled
by XEDIT and I badly missed prefix macros.
We had a home-grown IDE on CMS, based on XEDIT, and I added what I call
"structured input" for Assembler H, PL/I and REXX, which depended heavilly
on SET PENDING. I ported part of it to KEDIT, but it didn't automatically
insert new lines the way that the XEDIT version did. I wish that ISPF had an
equivalent to SET PENDING.
ObColdDeadFingers At home I have Tritus SPF (TSPF), which is a really good
clone of ISPF, although it is abandonware and hasn't bee updated to include
new ISPF features. Still, it isn't XEDIT.
IAC, I consider a good macro to be an essential part of any editor that I
rely on.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Hi Shmuel.
Many years ago, I used a virtual card reader on MVS and the CMS users used a
REXX exec to 'SPOOL PUN TO zosvm...'
'PUNCH fn ft fm ( NOH'
'CLOSE PUN'
You might have to play games to have longer than 80-byte records in your
jobs. And RSCS will (I think) propagate the CMS userid as already validated
(that might not be the case now). Seems like I might have written a JES
exit to accept the userid on the spool file as the MVS userid for the job
when it was read from the virtual card reader. (Same disclaimer.)
A great addition was to have a "SUB" XEDIT program, so you can (as you do
from TSO), enter "SUB" on the XEDIT command line to submit the job you're
editing. And "cmp" would format the JCL and compile the program I was
editing.
It's probably been 30 years now that I've strongly preferred a PC editor
named Kedit (from Mansfield software). The PC editor isn't limited to
interactions like an AID key--you can use ctrl- or alt- versions of any key
for certain functions (many that I create). I now keep all my source on a
PC and use a Kedit version of my old SUB XEDIT to submit jobs via FTPs using
"SITE FILETYPE=JES". So I still use "SUB" and "CMP" and several other
macros to submit jobs. Since our JES Report Broker (aka JRB) product will
FTP listings when they complete (you could maybe use IDz or some other tool
to return the listings, or view them in SDSF), I use it (JRB) to return the
listings to the Windows FTP server on my PC. An open-source program named
"FileWatcher" detects the file is returned and invokes Kedit to edit the
listing. Sounds convoluted, but it's usually maybe 5 seconds or so between
my entering "SUB" on my editor command line and the listing popping up back
in the editor. No JCL editing or looking for the right listing to view.
Plus, there are no 3270-screen-size limitations on how much of the source or
listing I see.
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