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Re: Reformat macro?

John, I wondered whether I'd been clear enough.

I want to take the following

:p.The CFGDSKHTR command is used to set
run-time control values for the STRDSKHTR
(referred to as the Monitor) and CHKDSKSPC
(referred to as the
Checker) commands.

and have it reformatted to

:p.The CFGDSKHTR command is used to set run-time control values for the
STRDSKHTR (referred to as the Monitor) and CHKDSKSPC (referred to as the
Checker) commands.

This assumes an 80-character record, leaving a blank in position 80 - or not, for UIM.

BTW, :p. is a tag for a paragraph.

I suppose it could concatenate the lines together with a blank between each, then substring to word breaks. Actually, REXX could handle that pretty well. I think, with its WORDS() and WORD() functions. Then put the new lines back where the original ones were.

Does that make more sense?

Thanks

Vern

At 12:03 PM 6/20/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Vern:

I'm not picturing in my mind exactly what you are asking for but maybe this will help.

It sounds like you want to position your cursor to a column (editor command cursorpos xx), go to the previous word (shift-left arrow) and split the line (Alt-S).


From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support <code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Reformat macro?
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:42:46 -0500

Y'all

Is there a macro or built-in function that will reformat source lines? I need it for editing UIM help. I want to avoid a lot of manual steps using ALT-S and ALT-J and keeping track of record length.

It'd need to break the selected lines at word breaks.

I can do this easily in TextPad. Probably other editors can, too.

TIA

Vern



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