Some of you "kids" may not remember or you aren't old IBM'ers but this
was all hashed out in about 1980 with the IBM internal availability of
XEDIT. I don't know that anyone has the archives of the old IBMVM
list. It would be interesting to see the arguments in it. EDGAR, the
favorite (my opinion) full screen editor of the day had it on the right
and it couldn't be moved.
I had a hard time time getting used to it being on the left for the
reason that Mark Pace gave, i.e. hitting newline puts me in the data
area not in the prefix area.
Jim
Huegel, Thomas wrote:
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Where does the prefix field belong?
On the left?
or
On the right?
--
Jim Bohnsack
Cornell University
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