Re: Erroneous Command Behaviour

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From: Melvin Klassen
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 00:00

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"Dennis G. Wicks" <WIXV@VM.FLUKE.COM> writes:
>Does anyone know of any way to stop XEDIT from redisplaying erroneous
>commands on the command line?

Use the 'SET MSGLINE mmm nnn' command to force the "error-message"
to occupy the same line(s) on the screen as the "command-line".

Since XEDIT cannot display *BOTH* the error-message and the user-input
on the *SAME* line, only the error-message is displayed.   :-)

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