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BMahoney@LMSC.Lockheed.COM <6381710@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> writes:
>When I am editing a line at the bottom of the screen and that line 'wraps' so
>that I cannot see more than the first 79 chars, as I use the Delete key the
>characters to the right of my delete activity creep left toward my cursor as
>the 'delete' eats up characters. Those characters that are wrapped and are not
>on my screen when I start deleting do not creep back onto the screen at this
>time and trailing blanks appear at the right end of the screen line. Okay- I
>would simply expect to see the trailing characters that are off the screen
>rejoin the text that I'm viewing when I press Enter or do some scrolling. But
>in fact, when the wrapped line is redisplayed the rightmost characters stay
>where they are and those blanks I saw on the screen are now actual spaces in
>the text!!!!

Since you must have used the 'SET VERIFY nn1 nn2' command to display only
part of the logical record, XEDIT, by design(!), will only update those columns
which you see on the screen.  If you use 'SET VERIFY 1 *', then XEDIT will
wrap the logical line onto more than one physical line on your display,
and the DELETE key does(!!!) cause text from the later physical lines to be
pulled onto the first physical line, i.e., WYSIWYG editing.