Re: Help make XEDIT and ISPF EDIT keystroke compatible (WAS: XEDIT Macro and Command Line Input)

2011-08-08 Thread Les Koehler
at 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 ---

Help make XEDIT and ISPF EDIT keystroke compatible (WAS: XEDIT Macro and Command Line Input)

2011-08-08 Thread Bob
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 > > ---

Re: XEDIT Macro and Command Line Input

2011-08-07 Thread Phil Smith III
Les Koehler wrote: >Isn't there an SPF macro package in the VM Download Library? >In the old days of IGS in Tampa we had a lot of folks that >had the same problem you have and I know I saw it resolved >more than once. But maybe none of those solutions found >their way to the Library (sigh). Ye

Re: XEDIT Macro and Command Line Input

2011-08-06 Thread Les Koehler
time. ...phsiii * Insert religious editor war here -Original Message- Bob 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 S

Re: XEDIT Macro and Command Line Input

2011-08-06 Thread Phil Smith III
siii * Insert religious editor war here -Original Message- Bob 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

Re: XEDIT Macro and Command Line Input

2011-08-05 Thread Les Koehler
One idea (from my memory): Use EXTRACT /CURSOR/ to see if the cursor is past the first character of the cmdline. If so then READ CMDLINE should put the cmdline data on the stack so you can PARSE PULL it. When in doubt about how something like READ actually works, use the HELP command. A lot

XEDIT Macro and Command Line Input

2011-08-05 Thread Bob
I'm struggling trying to write an XEDIT macro and hoping someone can help me 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