Re: CL syntax in JLPEX editor

I would like to see some enhancements made to the CL formatter, and voted 
for it on the recent survey.

That being said, if all of the kinks get worked out of the current 
formatter it does offer a lot of benefits.  For example, you can edit a 
command and insert a bunch of text and it will just reformat and reflow 
the command when you leave the line.  In SEU, once you reach the end of 
what can fit on a line you are stuck.

Mark




wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/22/2003 12:14:24 PM:

> There appears to be no way to get syntax for CL the same in the jLPEX 
> editor as it is in SEU or even in CODE. With the settings at "lpex" and 
> "auto format", the editor will not, when I leave the line where the 
> statement is, keep changes I make. This is not unlike Visual Basic, 
except 
> that Visual Basic honors indents.
> 
> In SEU, if I format source as *I* want, it remains as I put it. 
Auto-format 
> takes over in jLPEX. In SEU, the only thing that will reformat is 
> pressing  Enter after prompting (F4).
> 
> So I went to "seu" and turned off "auto-format". Changes I made were 
> retained, as long as I do not prompt. But taking the prompt, making 
> changes, and pressing OK makes it really weird - command starts in 
position 
> 1, additional lines start in position 10.
> 
> And guess what? Taking Cancel, the formatting of the source is still 
> changed - Cancel means "leave it alone", doesn't it?
> 
> I do see that, with auto-format on and not using a prompt (how useless 
is 
> that? I rely on prompts), the formatting is similar to that of SEU, 
except 
> that the breakpoint for additional lines seems to be different - can 
live 
> with that, I guess.
> 
> But I will not use RSE for CL, at least for now.
> 
> Regards and holiday joys to all
> Vern
> 
> 
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