Intelligent Indenting with /FREE

["SamL" <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Intelligent indenting as you key is, IMHO, what is needed.  If I need to
key 3 lines like this:
    1   if x=y;
    2      a=b;
    3   endif;

I'd expect that after I hit return on line 1 the cursor would be
positioned where I need to key the "a" on line 2.

When I come to line 3 back-tab should un-indent for me.

How many position to indent should be controlled by where the tab stops
are set, so if I want 4 I can set tab stops every 4 postions, if I want
5 I can set tab stops every 5 positions, etc.

It would be nice to highlight a section of code and have it reformatted
to the correct indent.

There are "pretty formatter" available for many languages.  Should be
well within IBM's capability to write one for free RPG.  They did it for
VA Java, but not very well from what I see of the comments in the
newsgroup.  (And a formatter for CL as a bonus--actually, I have one in
REXX that works pretty well.  Downloaded if from somewhere years ago.)

Sam

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Westdorp, Tom" <Tom.Westdorp@StationCasinos.com>
To: <code400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: RE: View Indent vs free form


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The folks on "IBM's side" on this make it sound like your indentations
are
overridden with IBM's indentations.  That is only true if you save the
generated source back over your own.  There may be times to do this, or
not
do this.  That choice is ours if the indentation is available for /free
code, but is just not available as things stand now.

I also would like indentation to work with /free RPG source.

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vernon Reeve [mailto:reeve@starband.net]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 8:34 AM
To: code400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: View Indent vs free form


I agree with IBM on this one.  The whole point of having /free is so you
can
do your own indenting.  Of course a utility (like rpgalive) that does
the
indenting for you (when you ask it to) would be nice.  And a utility
that
converts all your RPGLE and/or RPG code to the free format indented
version
would be even better.  Maybe cvtilerpg will come out with a new version
to
do this.

Unfortunately I'm stuck on v4r2 for now.

-----Original Message-----
From: code400-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:code400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of rob@dekko.com
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 7:00 AM
To: code400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: View Indent vs free form


Well I opened up a pmr on this and this was IBM's reply:
ACTION TAKEN: Because you have specifed /free code does not examine
              the statements and indent them.  This is working as
              designed.

Funny thing is that SEU, combined with the software RpgAlive, will do
this.
http://www.rpgalive.com/

Looks like IBM lags behind the competition again.

Filled out a Design Change Request and will see if that goes anywhere...


Rob Berendt

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In Code if I do a View Indent on the following it looks the same:
      /free
       for x=1 to y;
       if myproc(x);
       write rec;
       endif;
       EndFor;
      /end-free

Shouldn't it look like:
      /free
       for x=1 to y;
        if myproc(x);
         write rec;
        endif;
       EndFor;
      /end-free

Rob Berendt

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