Re: Reformat macro? -- CODE400-L

Vern:

Thanks for the clarification.

I think I would still do it with recorded macros to be quick. Something like - start on the last line home position, cursor up, end, Alt-J, home (repeat).....

To split the lines, cursorpos 80, ctrl-left, Alt-S, down, home (repeat).

I don't have a macro that does exactly what you want but Vincent Greene wrote a comments macro a while back that has a function for formatting a long string of text into comments. Maybe you could modify it for your purpose. Let me know if you want a copy.

I think the tricky bit will be selecting the text you want to process. I never figured out how to just process text that is highlighted. Most of my macros process the entire file from the starting location or a single line at a time.

John

From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support <code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support <code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Reformat macro?
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:28:55 -0500
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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