Interactive System Productivity Facility LPEX commands

The System z® LPEX editor enables you to use the following Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) commands in addition to those provided by the base LPEX editor, as described in ISPF base profile and Key settings in the ISPF editor profile. The behavior of these commands is similar to the behavior of the same commands in the ISPF editor. For detailed descriptions of the ISPF editor commands and string specification, refer to the ISPF Edit and Edit Macros book. The commands within the LPEX editor provide a subset of the functions available in the ISPF editor.

Commands that accept strings generally accept the same formats that the ISPF commands accept. For example, quoted, character, text and picture strings are accepted. Additionally, regular expressions are accepted as search strings by placing the regular expression in quotes preceded by an R. For example, FIND R'[0-9]{3}' will find strings containing three numbers. Hexadecimal specification is not accepted.

The highlighting of strings is done differently in LPEX than it is in ISPF. In ISPF, all instances of a found string are highlighted. In LPEX, only the current instance of the string is highlighted.

Labels also behave slightly differently within the LPEX editor because ISPF labels are not a native feature of the LPEX editor.

Multiple edit primary commands can be chained together by placing a semicolon between the commands. However, the semicolon must have a space before and after it.

Table 1. ISPF commands supported by the System z LPEX editor

Name*	Description	Supported parameters
C	Find and replace	{FIRST, LAST, NEXT, PREV, ALL} {CHARS, WORD, SUFFIX, PREFIX } {column numbers} {label range}
F	Find	{FIRST, LAST, NEXT, PREV, ALL} {CHARS, WORD, SUFFIX, PREFIX } {column numbers} {label range}
X	Exclude lines.	{FIRST, LAST, NEXT, PREV, ALL} {CHARS, WORD, SUFFIX, PREFIX } {column numbers} {label range}
SORT	Sort document lines.	{ A, D } { X, NX } {column numbers} {label range}
BOUNDS	Set context boundary for commands. Note: The BOUNDS command does not affect commands entered in the prefix area (such as the shift command: ))). The BOUNDS command only affects commands entered in the LPEX command line, namely C, F, X, and SORT.	{column numbers}
RFIND	Repeat the last find command.	N/A
RCHANGE	Repeat the last change command.	N/A
FLIP	Inverts the include/exclude status of each line in the document. Hidden lines become shown and vice versa.	N/A
RESET	Show excluded lines and remove the highlighting of found strings .	{ X, CHG, FIND }
DELETE	Deletes lines in a specified range.	{ ALL, X, NX , label range }
* Many of these commands have aliases. For example: FIND, F CHANGE, C EXCLUDE, X BOUNDS, BNDS RESET, RES DELETE, DEL