I've used cross-hair cursor for as long as I've had Vista. The value of CH is not in locating the cursor. It's maximizing the value of 3270 for fixed-point character placement. If you want to free-form edit data, say, 'in a column' or 'on a line', nothing is more helpful than cross-hair. Follow the CH cursor from the alignment reference point to the typing point, and left-click. The larger the screen, the more time you'll save long term.
If you're like the Walrus and easily led astray by faint cross-hair lines, try editing an ASCII columnar file in Notepad or Word and judge the difference. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Graham Harris Sent: Monday, December 31, 2018 3:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Crosshair cursor I have never liked the distraction of a crosshair cursor. The one exception was 3 decades ago, using a 4-in-1 3290 screen in the ops bridge, where it was sometimes not easy to keep track of which of the 4 screens was 'active', which the crosshair did actually make it a lot more obvious than the usual blob cursor did. On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 23:23, Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> wrote: > No cross-hairs for me (in this context). I think it looks hideodeous. > If I don't know where the cursor is, I just put it where I want it to be. > > Now I have experience with all kinds of sysprogs and sysadmins that > love to restrict every feature and impose their will on every possible > option; but haven't seen anyone dictate a particular cursor yet. > Hopefully my present shop won't get any ideas. > > fwiw, I've used Bluezone for years, and I like it. The latest > versions have sorted out the options nightmare it used to have -- at least > somewhat. > > sas > > ... > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on > behalf > > > of zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> > > > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2018 10:46 AM > > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > > Subject: Crosshair cursor > > > > > > Does anybody here voluntarily use a crosshair cursor in your 3270 > > emulator? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
