On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 23:50:12 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: >On Jul 30, 2014, at 6:40 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:57:04 -0400, Ed Finnell wrote: >> >>> Yep, line mode. If you do a find and get no hits you're at the >>> bottom. >>> >> That is one of the dumbest, most hostile behaviors I have ever seen in >> an editor (but TSO edit isn't unique here). If I do a find and get no >> hits (very possibly because I mistyped the search target) a well- >> behaved editor should leave the file position unchanged. > >I disagree and I did live with it for several years and learned to >like it. When we got FSE it was like heaven. > OK. Please explain why it's useful, or beneficial. Does it save time, or keystrokes, or ???. Would you prefer it if ISPF Edit had that behavior?
(One thing I like about ISPF Edit (almost unique) it that you must issue the Repeat Find command twice to wrap the bottom or top of the file. I wrote an XEDIT macro to simulate that behavior.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
