SIREDIT parameter

Sirius EDIT flags

Summary

Default value

0

Parameter type

User

Where set

User resettable

Related products

All

Introduced

Before Sirius Mods 6.7

Description

This is a bitmask parameter that controls various enhancements to the Model 204 fullscreen editor. The meaning of the bits are:

X'01'

Switch to *LOWER mode upon entry to the editor, and revert to prior setting upon exit. This allows command mode to work in *UPPER mode so that commands are automatically uppercased, while allowing the editor to work in mixed-case mode. Since most Model 204 commands take entirely uppercase input, *UPPER mode is almost always preferable in command mode. On the other hand, most modern User Language programs use mixed case, so *LOWER mode is preferable inside the editor. The SIREDIT X'01' bit allows one to get the best of both worlds with no effort. This bit has no effect if the user is already in *LOWER mode on entry to the editor.

X'02'

Change the LINEND character for the current procedure to carriage return (X'0D'). This allows procedures to include semicolons as data, and it also makes it easier to edit a procedure that has been uploaded from an HTML generator.

X'04'

Always force the current 3270 Mod 2 behavior (24 lines by eighty characters), even if the editor is invoked by a thread using a Mod 5 session. This bit takes precedence over the following bit.

X'08'

Allow Mod 5 sessions in DBCS environments. Ordinarily the widescreen (Mod 5) support is disabled under DBCS environments. When this bit is set, even DBCS sessions are eligible for widescreen support.

X'10'

Provide case-insensitive locate in non-DBCS environments. Thus, the editor command will locate both of the following lines, regardless of the setting of *LOWER/*UPPER or the SIREDIT X'01' bit:

This is sometimes hard to find due to mixed case, while “this is” is all lower case.

X'20'

Provide case-insensitive search strings for the replace command, while still retaining the case as entered on the replacement string, assuming that either *LOWER is in effect or the X'01' bit of SIREDIT is set. Under these conditions, and using the text from the previous example, the command:

r/this is/This Is/* all

will change occurrences on both lines, resulting in:

This Is sometimes hard to find due to mixed case, while “This Is” is all lowercase.

X'40'

Allow matching of single-quote (') to double-quote (") and vice versa. This is useful when looking at procedures that contain code where both single and double quotes can be used to enclose string literals. This includes User Language, Javascript, XSLT, and anything else that uses XML. Note that this feature does not affect replace commands and does not care whether the quotes are actually being used to enclosed string literals. For example, the string That"s odd would match That's odd if the SIREDIT X'40' bit is set. The arbitrary quote matching feature was first made available in Sirius Mods 8.1.

See also

• In addition to the SIREDIT parameter, the Sirius Mods provide some additional fullscreen editor commands.