Why did he say it proudly? After all, it was an admission of his shortcomings. :-)
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:35 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: PUR RDR ALL not working for a user Yes, Edgar, were are the days. When I started in IBM (1978) I was learned to use EDIT. After half a day, another SE couldn't beleave they still learned us EDIT, and he gave me EDGAR. Quite some of my XEDIT PF-key settings still do what they did in EDGAR. But, much later, I saw another collegue demonstrating XEDIT: the fact that he could issue these single keystrokes > or < to set the prefix area right or left made me eager to get XEDIT. Yet another -very intelligent- collegue said me later that he somehow prefered EDGAR: "about EDGAR I can proudly say 'I know all its commands' and that is impossible with XEDIT" Kris, IBM Belgium, VM customer support P.S. I still have > and < as synonyms to set the prefix area were I like it at the time. IMHO the best position depends on what one is doing, for text work, PREIFX ON RIGHT is better (the newline key goes to the next line; cursor column displayed by emulator corresponds to that in the file). Only when one needs to add/delete/move many lines, LEFT is better.
