EDITSET—Display the Editor Settings Dialog

The EDITSET and EDSET primary commands cause the Editor Settings dialog to begin, enabling you to modify Editor settings.

Syntax


>>-+-EDITSET-+-------------------------------------------------><
   '-EDSET---'

Description

The EDITSET primary command enables you to modify the Editor settings.

The Edit and View Settings panel

Entering the EDITSET or EDSET primary commands, or choosing the Edit_Settings action bar item causes the panel shown in Figure 1 to display:

Figure 1. Edit and View Settings panel (ISREDSET)

 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │                           Edit and View Settings                            │
 │                                                                More:     +  │
 │ Settings for current and future Edit and View sessions:                     │
 │                                                                             │
 │   User session initial macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                    │
 │   Maximum initial storage allowed for Edit and View  . .     0              │
 │   Target line for Find/Change/Exclude string . . . . . .  2                 │
 │   Enter "/" to select option                                                │
 │   _  Always position Find/Change/Exclude string to target line              │
 │   _  Remove action bars in ISPF edit and view panels                        │
 │   _  Force ISRE776 if RCHANGE passed arguments                              │
 │                                                                             │
 │   CUT default . . 2  1. Append      PASTE default . . 2  1. Delete          │
 │                      2. Replace                          2. Keep            │
 │                                                                             │
 │ Settings for future sessions. Select Apply Setting Immediately for the      │
 │ setting to affect the current session as well.                              │
 │                                                                             │
 │   Enter "/" to select option                                                │
 │ Command ===>                                                                │
 │  F1=Help        F2=Split       F3=Exit        F7=Backward    F8=Forward     │
 │  F9=Swap       F12=Cancel                                                   │
 └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The fields on the panel are as follows:

User session initial macro

You can specify a macro to be run before you begin editing your sequential data set or any member of a partitioned data set. This initial macro allows you to set up a particular editing environment for the Edit session you are beginning. This initial macro runs in addition to any IMACRO value in your profile.

Maximum initial storage allowed for Edit and View

The maximum amount of storage that edit and view use when initially loading the data into the edit or view session. This number is in kilobytes and is rounded to the nearest 128 KB value. If you set a limit on the initial amount of storage allowed, and a session requires more than that amount, the data is shown in BROWSE mode instead of edit or view.

A value of zero indicates that the edit session should not impose any limits on initial storage used. If this value is zero and there is not enough storage to load the data, a program error can result.

Target line for Find/Change/Exclude string

This indicates the line of the edit data display to which the target line of a FIND, CHANGE, or EXCLUDE command should be positioned. The value can be from 1 to 99, the default is 2. If the value specified is greater than the last line of the display, the target line is positioned to the last line of the display.

Always position Find/Change/Exclude string to target line

This determines whether the editor always positions the target line of a FIND, CHANGE, or EXCLUDE command to the target line specified in the "Target line for found/changed/excluded string" field, or only position the string if it is not currently on the display. The default is to only position the line if it is not on the current display.

Remove action bars in ISPF edit and view panels

If this field is selected, the action bars in the edit or view panels are not shown. This field affects only those panels that are included in ISPF, and has no effect on customized edit panels or edit panels provided with products other than ISPF.

Force ISRE776 if RCHANGE passed arguments

If this field is selected then EDIT will ensure that when RCHANGE is issued from a PF key, it does not try to process input from the command line. In this case RCHANGE will treat anything that you type on the command line as an invalid parameter and will return an error message ISRE776. For more information, see Edit commands and PF key processing.

CUT default

Append: If data exists on the clipboard, append the new data being cut to the end of the existing data.
Replace: If data exists on the clipboard, replace it with the new data being cut.

PASTE default

Delete: Remove the data from the clipboard after it has been pasted.
Keep: Do not remove the data from the clipboard after it has been pasted. This allows for data to be pasted multiple times.

Confirm Cancel/Move/Replace

When you select this field with a "/", a confirmation panel displays when you request one of these actions, and the execution of that action would result in data changes being lost or existing data being overwritten.

For MOVE, the confirm panel is displayed if the data to be moved exists. Otherwise, an error message is displayed.
For REPLACE, the confirm panel is displayed if the data to be replaced exists. Otherwise, the REPLACE command functions like the edit CREATE command, and no confirmation panel is displayed.
For CANCEL, the confirmation panel is displayed if any data changes have been made, whether through primary commands, line commands, or typing.
Note: Any commands or data changes pending at the time the CANCEL command is issued are ignored. Data changes are "pending" if changes have been made to the displayed edit data, but no interaction with the host (ENTER, PF key, or command other than CANCEL) has occurred. If no other changes have been made during the edit session up to that point, the confirmation panel is not displayed.

Apply Setting Immediately: Controls whether a change in the setting applies to the current edit session (immediately) or on the next edit session.

Preserve VB record length

You can select this option to cause the editor to store the original length of each record in variable-length data sets and when a record is saved, the original record length is used as the minimum length for the record.

Apply Setting Immediately: Controls whether a change in the setting applies to the current edit session (immediately) or on the next edit session.

Examples

These steps show the use of the EDITSET primary command:

Assume that you are editing a member named PGM8 and you want to change the setting for Confirming a Cancel, Move, or Replace action. So, you enter the EDITSET command on the command line as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. EDITSET primary command example
When you press Enter, the Edit and View Settings panel (Figure 1) appears.
If necessary, scroll down to display the Confirm Cancel/Move/Replace field. Enter or remove the slash mark in the Confirm Cancel/Move/Replace field to make the setting as you want it to be.