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Logical Line Editing Symbols
Logical Escape
ABC#DEF¢ deletes the #DEF and results in ABC
ABC#¢ results in ABC
ABC#DEF¢#GHI results in ABC#GHI
ABC#DEF¢GHI results in ABCGHI
v Physical Line Delete:
ABC¢ deletes the whole line
Note: When you cancel a line by using the ¢ logical line delete symbol, you do not
need to press a carriage return; you can continue entering data on the same
line.
The logical escape symbol (") causes z/VM to consider the next character entered
to be a data character, even if it is normally one of the logical line editing symbols
(@, ¢, ", or #). For example,
ABC"¢D results in ABC¢D
""ABC"" results in "ABC"
If you enter a single logical escape symbol (") as the last character on a line, or on
a line by itself, it is ignored.
When you enter multiple logical escape characters in conjunction with other logical
editing characters, the results may be difficult to predict. For example, the lines
ABC""@DEF
ABC""@@DEF
both result in the line ABCDEF.
Defining Logical Line Editing Symbols
The logical line editing symbols are defined for each virtual machine in the virtual
machine’s CP directory entry. If your terminal’s keyboard lacks any of these special
characters, your installation can define other special characters for logical line
editing. To find out the logical line editing symbols in effect for your virtual machine,
enter the command
cp query terminal
The response might be
LINEND # , LINEDEL ¢ , CHARDEL @ , ESCAPE " , TABCHAR ON
LINESIZE 080, ATTN OFF, APL ON , TEXT OFF, MODE VM, HILIGHT ON
CONMODE 3215, BREAKIN IMMED , BRKKEY PA1 , SCRNSAVE OFF
AUTOCR ON
You can use the TERMINAL command to change the logical line editing characters
for your virtual machine. For example, if you enter
terminal linend /
then, the line
input # line / input / #
is interpreted
input # line
input
#
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