This feature is not used by FILELIST & co, but by HELP. You can see the difference in XEDIT's status area: in HELP you can observe "MACRO READ", not the case for FILELIST. FILELIST's command execution is based on this SET ENTER IGNORE MACRO EXECUTE Meaning that when you press enter and the XEDIT cmd area is empty, the REXX procedure named EXECUTE XEDIT is started.
And, to answer the original question: you need to execute a READ command to make XEDIT do something with the changes to fields in RESERVED lines: XEDIT will place them on the STACK. In practice you'd need the TAG option on the READ command so that your REXX code knows what field was changed. 2010/8/8 Phil Smith III <[email protected]> > Alan Winson wrote: > >It's all documented. Issue HELP XEDIT READ. > > Indeed. The brain cells are fading fast now! > > I think what's not documented is that CTLCHARs in the file being XEDITed > are interpreted on READ NOCHANGE TAG. So you can create template files sort > of like DMS and use those for panels. > > ...phsiii > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
