In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/04/2006
at 08:53 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Perhaps "autoskip" should operate in the reverse direction,
I'm not sure that is the best solution, but the problem is certainly a
nuisance.
>o Of late, companies are requiring ever more complex passwords, with
> mixed-case, numerics, and special characters. VM line editing
> usurps several special characters; to enter them literally, they
> must be prefixed with '"'. But the password field in VM full
> screen logon is only 8 characters wide, allowing no extra space
> for quoting characters.
Does VM line editing apply? I thought that was strictly for command
and line-mode input.
> - Line editing ought to be disabled by default on graphic
>terminals.
For for full-screen applications, yes: not for line-mode input.
> The feature is useful only on keyboard-printer terminals.
The feature is useful for line-mode input on a 3270. BTDTGTS.
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