On Fri, 19 May 2023 18:32:57 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > ... >>I was trying to automate that in a macro on PF3. > >Yeah, that makes sense. > I learned a smattering of ISPF before any XEDIT; the latter in the era before PQUIT and QQIT intruded: the wrong solution. But I immediately longed for ISPF's smart END which did a Save only when needed and left the timestamp unchanged otherwise.
And I was irritated by XEDIT's behavior of *always* scrolling to center the target of a successful search, usually needlessly And it was disappointing that the XEDIT-based *LIST menus always ran in separate rings, never sharing with each other, PEEK, and XEDIT. They should have used ADDRESS XEDIT instead of CMS. I wasted too much time scripting around such things, never modifying IBM code, only using undocumented interfaces. And it all went for naught when a major update broke them -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
