On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:35:52 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > on 08/09/2014 at 04:16 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: > >>I suppose it's unfortunate that checking the return code is part >>of the macro language rather than of the host environment. > >Au contraire, it's fortunate. Anybody coding an edit macro is likely >to need feedback from subcommands. > Surely one action choice might be to set the return code passed to the macro processor. But that shouldn't be the default, in deference to those who have expressed a phobia of performing a destructive action in a macro after a failed search.
>>I place a premium on economy of keystrokes >>and hand motion. > >Use vi. > I had that in mind. I do; with my data sets NFS-mounted to Solaris. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
