Hah, the first of those I fixed in about 1983 via SET VARCURL. Mind you, the 
intent at that point was to save screen rewrites over slow dialup! That was a 
nice mod, though.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> On Behalf 
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, September 8, 2025 1:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: HLASM and VM (was RE: Using (0) to suppress alignment checks in 
HLASM)

On 9/8/25 10:42, Phil Smith III wrote:
> "two kinds of shifts"? First and third? :)
>    ...Floor and steering column.

The behavior of XEDIT I never became comfortable with was its scrolling to 
center a search target vertically where ISPF simply highlights it in place.

The behavior of ISPF I never became comfortable with was its inability to wrap 
long lines, making INSERT characters extraordinarily cumbersome.

No one should ever need more than 72 columns?

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gil

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