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Chris Rehm wrote: > And probably if this was often enough, you could simply write a macro for CA > to use. Then, move to the line and hit alt-v, and the surrounding lines are > revealed. > > If it wasn't that often, you probably wouldn't remember what key you had the > macro attached to, so it wouldn't pay off. I don't use macros much. back when I had a terminal on the 36, I used up all 24 of my record and play keys used up with procedures and such (I had a cmdkey template around the keys to tell me what they were. since the 400, most of those could be replaced with pdm options. Like you said, the things I could use them for I wouldn't use enough to remember the key map. <snip> > Not often. Want to point out though that my years at the green screen have > taught me to dislike taking my hands off the keyboard. I don't like reaching > to mouse and back. I'm getting more used to it, but I agree - it's a pain. I usually just type it in. > What you showed was not that your mother could not be helped by the new > technology. Only that the technology could not give the competitor enough of > a boost to compete with her. True, She eventually capitulated (as I will). The big boost in her field was when the selectric could remember a whole page, and retype it. It would even stop at big words towards the end of a column and let you hyphenate. Back then, you still had to give the type to a paste-up artist (a dead profession) to prepare the camera ready pages. My dad was as good as there was at paste-up. But he never learned to type, and the profession left him behind. Now thanks to tech, any fool can layout a decent page. He learned the pc publishing programs as they came out, but since he couldn't type, he wasn't productive. Which goes to your point - keep up with technology or be crushed by it. > By the way, we have again stuck to the value of the LPEX editor compared to > SEU. Code/400 has other tools as well. So, your contest should wait until > you have mastered the display/report designer, and the debugger. The > Code/400 debugger is probably as far ahead of ILE's source level debugger as > LPEX is ahead of SEU. That may not seem like a mile (but it will) but > consider that Code/400s debugger adds all those source level features to > RPG/400 and has done so for years. you have to debug your programs? mine work the first time I compile them (removing my tongue from the whole it dug in my cheek) Rick +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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