Re: WDSC use was Re: My first 'viral' video

speaking of Textpad, they just came out with v5.0.3 around April this year.
They had gone several years without an upgrade... great product.

<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> 06/21/07 4:34 PM >>>

Buck

I also like the regular expressions - but they are nowhere near what I really
need - they don't have good replacement capabilities - I compare this to the
stuff in TextPad - and I even grab a block of code from RSE and take it to
TextPad to get done what needs to be done.

Vern

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From: Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>

WDSC does a lot of things really well, but for plain old RPG /free
development I find few advantages over PDM.

I'm glad to hear that someone feels the same way I do. I was beginning
to think that something is wrong with me.

I've been using PC based editors since before OS/2 was Warp. I also had
a long stint with the mainframe Xedit. That gives me a somewhat
different history and viewpoint from many System i programmers.

Like Scott, I feel like the features typically advertised for WDSC don't
do anything for me. I had a love affair going with Code/400, and the
major reason wasn't screen real estate, coloured tokens or matching
IF...ENDIF.

I'll keep it short because the WDSC list is a better audience, but the
main things I found valuable in Code were ReXX macros and regular
expressions. Eclipse (the base of WDSC) does not have a macro facility,
but regular expressions are alive and well.
--buck