Specifies the sequence of characters, or function or attention key or lightpen, which initiates a paste operation to paste data collected by a previous cut operation.
This common end-user parameter is applicable to these control statements: SYSTEM (see SYSTEM statement), PROFILE (see PROFILE statement), USER (see USER statement), and TERMINAL (see TERMINAL statement).
PASTE escape NFILLP [Yes|No|ON|OFF] SPILLW [Yes|No|ON|OFF]
escape, which must be delimited by a null or a space when issued, can be from one to eight characters long, PF1-PF24, PA1-3, ATTN, CLEAR or PEN. When escape is entered, the IBM Session Manager Paste panel is displayed.
By defining the Menu panel appropriately, using a defined input field (variable t_paste) the escape sequence can be modified dynamically. See the PANEL statement in the Panels, Scripts and Variables manual.
Specifies how nulls to the left of the paste area are treated. If Yes is specified, any nulls are converted to spaces. No or OFF causes no conversion to occur; pasted data moves to the left.
If this subparameter is specified, any spillage during a paste operation causes a message to be displayed in the paste panel, but the paste operation continues if possible. Spillage occurs when the data being pasted is larger than the paste area.
SPILLW=No suppresses the warning message, and the paste operation continues.
Note: The PASTE parameter is affected by parameters CMDACTIONKEY and COMMANDPRFXVAL (see CMDACTIONKEY and COMMANDPRFXVAL).