Tom Brennan's Vista conforms: if a field runs to the right edge of the screen and continues on the next line, then Ins mode pushes characters from one line to the next. I recall no relevant experience with any other emulators.
The problem with SDSF /+ is that its "Full Screen" is only 80 characters wide, so if your display is wide -- mine is 132 wide FWIW -- the field does not really continue. SDSF thinks it continues, and you know it continues, and I know it continues, but an emulator has no way of knowing. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 17:39:58 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >"The INS MODE (3275/3277) or ~ (3276/3278/3279) key allows characters to be >inserted into a field, while all characters following the point of insertion >are shifted to the right." > >"If a field is a large one and covers more than one line, and if the situation >calls for it, during the insert operation, characters will shift from the end >of one line to the beginning of the next." > Clear enough. Thanks. Citation needed. So Rob's terminal is nonconforming. But if that's the modal behavior among current emulators, it avails suppliers little to count on the "standard" behavior. Is it optional? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
