Re: Newbie - Tab vs. Return

["Steve Landess" <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like the fact that when you leave a required field blank on a source
statement, SEU will highlight the field and position the cursor to the field
in error.

For example, I would code the CHAIN operation, leaving the indicator field
blank, and press <Enter>.  SEU would highlight the appropriate indicator
field and position the cursor to the indicator field, where I would then
type the indicator number.  To me, this is faster than using the cursor
control (right arrow) key to position the cursor to this field.

Unfortunately, this works better with RPG/400 (OPM) source than with ILE
source.  Since CHAIN now doesn't require an indicator, this technique
doesn't work quite as well...

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935


"Jim Damato" <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:16 PM
Subject: RE: Newbie - Tab vs. Return


> You'd get more of the functionality you're looking for if you were to
prompt
> your source lines in SEU.  Unfortunately, prompting is for wimps.
>
> -Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Landess [mailto:steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:55 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Newbie - Tab vs. Return
>
>
> > Ray wrote:
> > I was trying to work with SEU, and I got really frustrated:  I wanted to
> set
> > tabs (to cruise across the line more easily), and no matter what I
seemed
> to
> > do, my TAB key gives me a line-feed-carriage-return, and my RETURN key
> move
> > across the tab stops.  I tried to find out what I was doing wrong , but
I
> > can't see that I did anything wrong...I even checked my keyboard mapping
> > (which, BTW, works correctly in every other instance).
> >
> > TIA     :-)
>
> Ray -
>
> SEU doesn't do TABs like PC or Unix-based editors...I think you'll need
CODE
> for this functionality...
>
> In SEU (or any other application), the TAB key essentially moves the
cursor
> between fields on the screen, placing it into the first position of the
next
> screen field.  The SEU source edit screen has three basic types of fields:
> The command line at the top (with only one occurrence), and the source
Seq#
> and source statement fields (both of which occur multiple times on the
> display).
>
> When you start SEU, the cursor will be in the SEU==> ____________ field
(the
> SEU command line) at the top of the display.
>
> If you press TAB, the cursor will move to the next field, which is the
Seq#
> field for the first source statement shown.  Pressing TAB again places the
> cursor in the first source statement.  Press it again, and the cursor will
> move to the Seq# field for the next source statement, and so on...
>
> Steve Landess
> Austin, Texas
> (512) 423-0935
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