On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 10:59:55 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > ... >How much of what the macro was doing was "glue logic" (if it was >in REXX) or scanning through the file line by line, compared with >calling editor commands (which one would expect to be fairly >efficient)?
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:45:04 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > ... >Alternatively, maybe you never wrote any edit macros in anything other >than REXX? ISTR that one could use any SAA language, eg COBOL or >Assembler, apart from CLIST/REXX. > If so, I'd expect the limiting factor to be Edit's parsing the command string. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
