RE: Newbie - Tab vs. Return -- MIDRANGE-L

It's on your steering column, and it's used to notify other drivers of your
intent to deviate from you current path of motion...also referred to, in
slang, as a blinker.   :-)

Ray Shahan

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans", John Lennon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [SMTP:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:38 AM
> To:   Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject:      Re: Newbie - Tab vs. Return
> 
> What's an indicator?  :-)
> 
> Rob Berendt
> -- 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
> Benjamin Franklin 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Steve Landess" <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> 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
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> 
> "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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