[WDSCI-L] Editing tips

["Dizzy Verde" <dizzyverde@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Anybody who feels up to extending the functionality of the LPEX editor by 
writing your own plugin to add custom user commands and user actions can 
find all the information that you need to get started in Eric Simpson's 
articles in the Feb. & Jun. issues of eServer magazine.

But even short of doing that, there's a lot of good stuff to be found just 
in the default commands that you get out of the box.  Just type 'help' (this 
is a command itself) in the command line under the editor, press Enter,  
then click on 'Default editor commands'.  Read the descriptions of the 
various commands, then experiment with any that sound like they might be 
useful to you.  This might be old news to most of you, but one place I've 
found these commands useful is in the iSeries Indent view.  If you open an 
RPGLE source member, then select Source-->Show Indentation from the toolbar 
menu, the Indent view is shown.  But there's very little you can do with it 
other than browse it (which can be very useful).  BUT, since this view is 
using LPEX just like the editor, you can run any of the default commands 
from the command line.  For example, 'print' is very useful if you want an 
indented source listing.  'findText' is also useful (to search for text in 
the indented view), or you can also use the /text shortcut.

Hope this is useful to someone.

Diz

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