If you have to use it, that is. SET PREFIX OFF temporarily serves the same function.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:46 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey > > Not to forget: with PREF ON RIGHT, the cursor column > displayed by the "termulator" corresponds to the place in the > file... easier than looking at XEDIT's scale. > > 2008/2/21, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The current, not command, line in the middle! Never fell in > love with > > ISPF. Left because: > > > > 1. It is close to the text, which is sometimes very convenient, > > especially when using block commands. > > 2. Everything to the right is from the file. > > 3. Consistent with filelist and rdrlist. > > 4. It is a prefix, not a suffix, area. A prefix should > precede, not > > follow. I read left to right, ergo, the prefix area should > be on the > > left :-) > > 5. My termulator (What a typo! However, it is sort of > catchy as a > > short way of saying "terminal emulator".) is set to 3278-05. Having > > the prefix on the right is not only ugly when editing a > file having > > short records, it can be downright difficult to associate > the line > > numbers with the data. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Richard Schuh > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:15 PM > To: > > IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey > > > > > > On the RIGHT of course, and the command and scale lines at > > > > > the TOP. I don't know who thought the command line should be > > > in the middle, but I guess the TOP vs BOTTOM vote was a tie. > > > > > > I really thing that the lefties are just lefties because they > > > had previously used that lousy MVS editor which did it wrong. > > > > > > Tony Thigpen > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message ----- > > > From: Huegel, Thomas > > > Sent: 02/20/2008 10:05 AM > > > > Where does the prefix field belong? > > > > On the left? > > > > or > > > > On the right? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Kris Buelens, > IBM Belgium, VM customer support >
