Though this is completed off-topic, I love the fact my my TN3270 emulator has an option which acts like trailing blanks are nulls. If a field has trailing blanks on it and I am in insert mode within that field, then trailing blanks just fall off the tail end of the field in insert mode, just like with ISPF NULLS ON.
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 20:39 -0700, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Jan 31, 2011, at 13:44, John Walker wrote: > > > Say, I have been noticing over the last year or so that i FREQUENTLY end up > > with my edit setting set to NULLS ON. This is an annoying and aberrant > > setting for any non-PC or non-unix use, which is to say ALL mainframe > > applications and work. However, when I set it to off, it ends up being > > reset somehow by ISPF. It seems that sometimes I am not even in browse or > > edit and it still does it. How can I reset this obvious over-riding > > default which I dislike? > > > ??? > > I couldn't _live_ with NULLS OFF. For example, when editing JCL > (surely a non-PC and non-unix use), if I have NULLS OFF and attempt > to insert a character, the keyboard locks and I must: > > o Press RESET to unlock the keyboard. > > o Press INSERT to reassert that mode. > > o Move the cursor past the end of the line. > > o Press ERASE EOF. > > o Move the cursor back to the intended insertion point. > > o Insert my character. > > Yucch! (But wouldn't it be neat if pressing INSERT MODE > momentarily set NULLS ON?) > > (Usually, I just set NULLS ON; do my insertion; and hope that > it doesn't end up being reset somehow by ISPF.) > > -- gil -- John McKown Maranatha! <><
