Re: Visual Studio vs. RDi.

Maria - I don't think your advice will help Brad - if I understand what he wanted.

I _think_ he wants an _unedited_ second window (assumedly he would prefer browse only as you can in RDi) so that he can reinstate code selectively for the original if he had deleted/changed things and then changed his mind.

As to my issues - actually I use NetBeans for PHP and don't find it an issue. It is VSC's little teeny windows that annoy me. In RDi I can have a small view of (say) my IFS files and then blow that window out to full screen when I need to see a lot of entires at the same time. That is a pain in VSC as you appear to have to drag the boundary lines up and down. It would be much better if the different views were on different tabs or something so that you could see more. I can rarely see more than about 10 or 12 items at a time without adjusting the view size. Perhaps that is just a limitation of Liam's extension but all other extensions I've used seem to have the same problem. Eclipse based IDEs like RDi allow you to full screen any view or even tear it off to another monitor (for example). Because VSC basically appears to be "browser" based it doesn't seem to have that flexibility.

I do need to explore VSC further and maybe a few generic training videos would help - but as I noted before so much of it is non-intuitive to me.


Jon P.

On Nov 3, 2021, at 5:45 PM, Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

@Brad
To open a member twice you don't really <open> it, instead when a member is
already open and selected you just click the specific icon on the right
upper corner, it looks like a small rectangle with a vertical line in the
middle.
It's not dangerous at all, as it's not a second, or third and on, copy:
it's the same file which can be seen in different tabs so you can see
different portions of it. The moment you make a change in one line it will
reflect in any tab with the same source file open. I find it extremely
useful when I write c specifications while coding variables' declaration at
the same time. This is a VSC feature. It works with any open file.

@Jon
Yes, I agree with you that VSC logic of managing files and projects it's
tricky, especially coming from other coding environments, but as far as I
know it's common among a certain class of IDEs , like NetBeans, rather
than a MS feature. Basically VSC is just an editor with lots of generic
functions, what makes the difference are the extensions you install.

Hope it helps.

Il Mer 3 Nov 2021, 20:08 Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

Brad,

"the nesting lines for loops". On reflection, it's probably not Ruler,
but in settings search for "guides.indentation". It's a standard VS Code
Setting.

Sam

On 11/3/2021 2:36 PM, Sam_L wrote:

"the nesting lines for loops" Personally, I like the vertical lines. In
**free code, if you have Rpgle Indention Enable it helps keep the
structure of your code clear. And With Ctrl + [ and Ctrl + ] you can
move a line or selected lines left and right by a tab stop. If the
lines really bother you, you might searching VS Code settings for Ruler.
Thought I have not experimented with this.

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