Re: Reformat macro?

["John Larimer" <jklarimer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern:

Thanks for the clarification.

I think I would still do it with recorded macros to be quick.  Something 
like -  start on the last line home position, cursor up, end, Alt-J, home 
(repeat).....

To split the lines, cursorpos 80, ctrl-left, Alt-S, down, home (repeat).

I don't have a macro that does exactly what you want but Vincent Greene 
wrote a comments macro a while back that has a function for formatting a 
long string of text into comments.  Maybe you could modify it for your 
purpose.  Let me know if you want a copy.

I think the tricky bit will be selecting the text you want to process.  I 
never figured out how to just process text that is highlighted.  Most of my 
macros process the entire file from the starting location or a single line 
at a time.

John




> From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support <code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support <code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Reformat macro?
> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:28:55 -0500
>
> John, I wondered whether I'd been clear enough.
>
> I want to take the following
>
> :p.The CFGDSKHTR command is used to set
> run-time control values for the STRDSKHTR
> (referred to as the Monitor) and CHKDSKSPC
> (referred to as the
> Checker) commands.
>
> and have it reformatted to
>
> :p.The CFGDSKHTR command is used to set run-time control values for the
> STRDSKHTR (referred to as the Monitor) and CHKDSKSPC (referred to as the
> Checker) commands.
>
> This assumes an 80-character record, leaving a blank in position 80 - or 
> not, for UIM.
>
> BTW, :p. is a tag for a paragraph.
>
> I suppose it could concatenate the lines together with a blank between 
> each, then substring to word breaks. Actually, REXX could handle that 
> pretty well. I think, with its WORDS() and WORD() functions. Then put the 
> new lines back where the original ones were.
>
> Does that make more sense?
>
> Thanks
>
> Vern
>
> At 12:03 PM 6/20/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> > Vern:
> >
> > I'm not picturing in my mind exactly what you are asking for but maybe 
> > this will help.
> >
> > It sounds like you want to position your cursor to a column (editor 
> > command cursorpos xx), go to the previous word (shift-left arrow) and 
> > split the line (Alt-S).
> >
> >
> > > From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reply-To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support <code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Reformat macro?
> > > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:42:46 -0500
> > >
> > > Y'all
> > >
> > > Is there a macro or built-in function that will reformat source lines? I 
> > > need it for editing UIM help. I want to avoid a lot of manual steps using 
> > > ALT-S and ALT-J and keeping track of record length.
> > >
> > > It'd need to break the selected lines at word breaks.
> > >
> > > I can do this easily in TextPad. Probably other editors can, too.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > Vern
>
>
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