The PROCESS command provides a way to alter the usual sequence of events in an edit macro. It is related to the PROCESS operand on the MACRO command. PROCESS is the default for the MACRO command. PROCESS specifies that display data and line commands be processed before another statement is processed. If you specify NOPROCESS, the editor defers processing the panel data and line commands until it finds an ISREDIT PROCESS command later in the macro, or until the macro ends. You can use PROCESS to create a "before-and-after" effect. If you specify NOPROCESS at the beginning of a macro, edited data appears without the changes made from the keyboard—creating a "before" effect. Once you specify PROCESS, changes that were made from the keyboard appear—creating an "after" effect.

>>-ISREDIT--MACRO--+------------------------+--+-PROCESS---+---><
                   |    .--------------.    |  '-NOPROCESS-'   
                   |    V              |    |                  
                   '-(----+----------+-+--)-'                  
                          '-variable-'