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I think changing the actual source would be somewhat more useful as well but I'm not the one who uses it all the time. I liked the idea someone had of highlighting a block and then clicking on an "Indent" option which would actually change the source. That would be particularly useful if you added an "IF" around a big block of code. Someone also mentioned about jumping from an IF to it's corresponding END. (or END to IF). This is currently available using View->Match->Jump (Ctrl+Shift+M). Michele Cummings WDT iSeries Development IBM Toronto Lab "SamL" <lennon_s_j@hotmail.com>@midrange.com on 10/30/2001 08:19:20 PM Please respond to code400-l@midrange.com Sent by: code400-l-admin@midrange.com To: <code400-l@midrange.com> cc: Subject: Re: Intelligent Indenting with /FREE I'd rather see the effort go into intelligent auto indenting the source rather that an indented view of /free code. If the code is intelligently indented then the need for an indented view is largely gone. (Though it would seem that there might be code in common in the two tasks.) Of course, I can see the need to re-indent when the original programmer(s) left a mess. I love the current indented view. For quick research, it helps make sense (ok, some sense) out of the convolutions of the past. Much better than having an indented compiled listing. Sam ----- Original Message ----- From: <mcumming@ca.ibm.com> To: <code400-l@midrange.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:03 AM Subject: Re: Intelligent Indenting with /FREE Sam, I agree that intelligent indenting would be a great thing to have in the /free blocks. I'll add it to our considerations list. As far as the View->Indent in the /free block goes, it is working as designed but I'll give some thought to indenting it as well. Thanks for your ideas! Michele Cummings WDT iSeries Development IBM Toronto Lab "SamL" <lennon_s_j@hotmail.com>@midrange.com on 10/29/2001 08:53:10 PM Please respond to code400-l@midrange.com Sent by: code400-l-admin@midrange.com To: <code400-l@midrange.com> cc: Subject: Intelligent Indenting with /FREE 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 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] 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 ================== "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin rob@dekko.com Sent by: To: code400-l@midrange.com code400-l-admin@mi cc: drange.com Fax to: Subject: View Indent vs free form 10/25/2001 11:09 AM Please respond to code400-l 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 ================== A smart person learns from their mistakes, but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes. _______________________________________________ This is the CODE/400 Discussion & Support (CODE400-L) mailing list To post a message email: CODE400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/code400-l or email: CODE400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/code400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the CODE/400 Discussion & Support (CODE400-L) mailing list To post a message email: CODE400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/code400-l or email: CODE400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/code400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the CODE/400 Discussion & Support (CODE400-L) mailing list To post a message email: CODE400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/code400-l or email: CODE400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/code400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the CODE/400 Discussion & Support (CODE400-L) mailing list To post a message email: CODE400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/code400-l or email: CODE400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/code400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the CODE/400 Discussion & Support (CODE400-L) mailing list To post a message email: CODE400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/code400-l or email: CODE400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/code400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the CODE/400 Discussion & Support (CODE400-L) mailing list To post a message email: CODE400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/code400-l or email: CODE400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/code400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the CODE/400 Discussion & Support (CODE400-L) mailing list To post a message email: CODE400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/code400-l or email: CODE400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/code400-l.
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