Yes. There are various user-written XEDIT macros called ALSO or INCLUDE that do this; my approach has always been more like: all/whatever/ tall top /somethingelse/sel1 repeat * tall
where TALL XEDIT is a macro I wrote 40++ years ago that interrogates the DISPLAY level and toggles between 0 0 and 0 n. My approach is wordier (commandier?) than ALSO but more powerful, e.g., I can do things like: /:h1/1sel1 or bottom -/something/-1sel1 repeat -* ...which an ALSO might handle, might not. And I do those ALL the time when analyzing/cleansing data. The power of SET SELECT/SET DISPLAY in XEDIT is quite amazing; I'm 99.44% sure Xavier knew about ISPF's support and expanded on it. Shoulda patented it. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2025 5:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Idea received: Provide a negative exclude command for EDIT and VIEW It's taken me this long to finally understand the difference between your request and my (intended) solution. You want a command that ~additionally~ excludes lines that don't match the arg - in other words, if I issue a command like this: nexclude txt ...it should search through the dataset looking only at NX lines and excluding any that don’t contain "txt". Any lines that have "txt" but were already excluded should stay excluded. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God "Thy will be done", and those to whom God says, in the end, "THY will be done". -from _The Great Divorce_ by C S Lewis */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2025 09:08 That, however, is not what NEXCLUDE does in TSPF nor what is in the suggestion I posted. NEXCLUDE leaves everything excluded that was previously excluded. I know of no way to simulate it without a macro that goes through the specified range line by line looking for non matches. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Colin Paice Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2025 2:35 AM I haven't been following too closely but I find x all; F ABC flip shows me all rows without ABC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
