Snippets

No, I didn't create my snippets for insertion at column 1. I expected RDi to do a block paste at the cursor when I did an insert. I guess I can do that easily enough for P and D specs, but for free form calcs that doesn't always work perfectly because you never know how much the indent should be. A block paste would be much nicer as it would eliminate having to move the code after inserting it. I guess that is better than messing with all the error messages and having to move the code anyways as is the case for me now. Thanks for the tip.

I had forgotten about the ellipsis trick for placeholders. I think I wrote it off because it would double the number of D specs in my subprocedures (two lines for every input parm and variable), but I'm glad you reminded me about that. It might be time to re-work a couple of my snippets.
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message: 2
date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:50:57 -0400
from: Dave Shaw <daveshawmrc@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Snippets

Are you saying that you don't write your snippets for insertion at column 1? I've always treated them as full lines, and haven't had any alignment issues.

Dave Shaw
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From: "Terry Hertel" <T.Hertel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: ?6/?26/?2015 4:22 PM
To: "wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Snippets

I have several snippets that I use for nearly every program that I write and have just learned to live with the alignment issues in P and D specs in subprocedures that arise when using variables and placeholders. However, I just created a snippet that is completely free-form calc specs (by pasting in code from an existing program), created two variables, and inserted the placeholders into the code. When I insert the snippet into my program, the first line is positioned at the cursor and all of the following lines are adjusted all the way to the left, which of course generates a bunch of pink error messages and forces me to block that section of the code and adjust it to the proper position. I tried to paste the block of code into the snippet using ALT/R to mark the block and ALT/Z to paste it into the snippet, but ALT/Z is not recognized there. The only way I have found so far to remedy this is to add a bunch of spaces to the front of lines 2-5 in the snippet (so the if/endif
statements don't line up in the snippet). Does anyone else have a better solution? There has been a lot of discussion about pasting into the editor but shouldn't snippet insert with correct alignment?