When there's a lot of assembly or JCL, I use my own Rexx edit macros, but for the odd few lines: yes, I just type with my left pinky over the shift key.
I learned in my 20s, so I'll probably never forget how. I don't even think about it, so I almost never need caps lock, or in ISPF "C ALL NX P'<' P'>' (is that right? Been a long time since I used that :-) ) Roops --- "Mundus sine Caesaribus" On Thu, 28 Aug 2025, 19:39 Paul Gilmartin, < 00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: > On 8/27/25 19:44, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > There you go again, making things up. You don't have a clue as to what > is or is not painful to whom. > > > > -- > > ________________________________________ > > From: Jon Perryman > > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:00:50 -0400, Phil Smith III<li...@akphs.com> > wrote: > > > > The transition to mixed case was painful for everyone except Gil, who > seems to have loved it. > > ... > I made the transition long before I encountered MVS. > From a monocase Teletype 33 to a mixed case TI. > Suddenly I saw output in mixed case. It was a > revelation: a computer (not IBM) that understood the > style I had learned in school. I never looked back; > I loved it! > > > Strange that no one mentions how they solved half a line in uppercase > and switching to lowercase for the other half. Do people hold the shift key > for half the line? > > ... > Some people know how to use the CAPS LOCK key, common > on most keyboards. Look for it along the left edge. > If you become familiar with it you may find it valuable. > > -- > gil >
