RE: Newbie - Tab vs. Return

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
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> 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 
> 
> 
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> "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>
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> 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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