Steve Thompson wrote: >I think I found the problem that caused ISPF to go sideways on coloring.
Cool! >A self-inflicted wound as it were. And you did that on a Friday, when a nice ice cold beer is crying to you to rescue it from the cold and dark fridge... ;-) >I did a subsequent find for a string that identified a routine I need to add >logic to, about 2000 lines earlier. It was there I noticed that I had mangled >a literal. It started with " and ended with '. >That was the beginning of sorrows. So ISPF went nuts with coloring (Er hat die >Nase voll). Indeed. ISPF will get nuts with all those " and '. ;-) I also wounded myself with that trap now and then. Ouch... So sometimes I turned off the Hilite, check everything and Hilite again for a double check. Trust me, I *then* found my edit errors.... ... while my coffee is getting cold ... >BTW -I did state at the beginning that I was doing REXX coloring including IF >and DO with parenthesis matching. I know, but I just want to make sure that you looked again, partly because a macro could change your setting afterwards, but Ok, thanks for reminding me of that. >One of the problems of working from home -- no one to look over your shoulder >and start snickering. I agree with you about problems of working from home, so many things (dogs barking, children playing, hooting from the street, 747 or Airbus over your head, etc. ) to distract you (excluding that silent cry from the fridge of course...) I am glad you found your solution! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
