Phil,
Thanks. You are right. I was trying too hard. Checking queued() was exactly
what I needed.
And yes, I am trying to get my VM and MVS environments to behave somewhat
alike. Like you said "fingers get trained". And, after 30+ years my fingers are
very well trained! The problem is that over the years I have spent time in both
camps so I have issues either way I go. My co-workers laugh because
my MVS world has always understood "QQ" & "FILE". (And I always have
'autosave' turned off.)
Right now I'm starting to do more in the VM world and I find that by using
PF7/PF8 all I succeed in doing losing my place in my document.
Going the other way, I keep wanting to use "X" in ISPF 3.4 ... and my dataset
just disappears!
So, SCROLL is destined to be assigned to all the pf keys I expect to scroll
the screen and make it behave more like ISPF.
And I would be happy to collaborate on making this happen.
(And I know you suggested that I contact you off-list, but I'm betting we are
not the only ones that would like these capabilities. And, we are probably
're-inventing the wheel' in many cases. Perhaps, we will get some others
offering tools that they have already created.)
Bob
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote:
> Bob,
>
> You're actually trying too hard: your macro should just look at QUEUED() and
> see if there's something stacked.
>
> This is a crude example, because you probably want to do more than just a
> "LOCATE *" for a M (like EXTRACT /SCREEN and divide by 2, then make it
> 'COMMAND * -'n
> or some such), but:
>
> /**/
> if queued() > 0 then pull op
> else op = ''
> if abbrev('MAX', op, 1) then 'COMMAND LOCATE *'
> else 'COMMAND FORWARD' op
>
> BTW, are you trying to do an SPF-ish environment in XEDIT? If so, please
> contact me off-list -- I'd be interested in helping. Not that I think SPF is
> better*, but I understand that the fingers get trained (now that I'm doing
> z/OS, I find myself doing FIND instead of / in XEDIT and KEDIT sometimes!),
> and it's been something that folks have talked about for a long time.
>
> ...phsiii
>
> * Insert religious editor war here
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Bob <mvs...@gmail.com>
> Subject: XEDIT Macro and Command Line Input
>
> I'm struggling trying to write an XEDIT macro and hoping someone can help=
> me=20
> over a tiny stumbling block.
>
> I want a pfkey set to a macro. ie. SET PF6 BEFORE MACRO SCROLL
>
> And I want to be able to accept an *optional* command line parameter.
>
> If there is always a command line parameter I seem to be able to use
> "READ CMDLINE" to get it. However, this does not seem to work=20
> when there is no command line parameter at all. I just get hung
> at the "READ CMDLINE" until I hit <enter>. Also, when there is a
> parameter I not only what to read it, but I want to "consume" it so that
> it is no longer on the command line after my macro.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
>
