Creating An Xedit Profile - IBM Professional Series User Manual

ENTER key, and more typing room will be provided for you.
When you want to stop power typing, press the ENTER key
twice.
You can use power typing mode at any time during an
editing session by entering the POWER command. The data
entered using power typing is inserted after the current line,
as it is when you use the INPUT command. When you enter
POWER, the current line of your file is displayed as the top
line on the power typing screen, but you cannot type over it.
If you want to insert characters or spaces in a line while
you're using power typing, press the Ins key. Remember to
press the RESET key when you are finished using insert
mode.
Creating an XEDIT Profile
You can use various SET commands to tailor an editing
session to meet your needs. For example, if you want the
cursor to tab to columns 10 and 20, you enter the command
SET TABS 10 20. If you want an automatic SA VB
command issued periodically, you use a SET A UTOSA VB
command. If you want your data to appear in capital and
lowercase letters, you enter SET CASE MIXED.
You can put all these commands (and others) in an XEDIT
PROFILE. Its filename must be PROFILE and its filetype
must be XEDIT. To create this file, enter XEDIT PROFILE
XEDIT. Type the commands you want, and enter a FILE
command. Then, all the commands in the PROFILE XEDIT
file will be executed automatically each time you enter an
XEDIT command. This saves you the time it takes to type
these commands each time you edit a file.
A sample PROFILE XEDIT file might contain these
commands. Each command must be typed on a separate
line.
SET CASE M!XED
SET AUTOSAVE 20
SET TABS 10 20 30 40
SET PF12 FILE
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