Re: [WDSCI-L] cl prompting

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Rob

About all caps, I don't know, maybe my old SEU habits are showing. Maybe we 
need a switch to control whether to convert case. Mixed-case is nice for 
pretty-print, and we don't get that choice now.    AFAIK   ;-)

But I can set the CL auto-formatting to start the command in any column, not 
the SEU default. I tend to use column 3 with the indent for additional lines of 
13. I put labels in column 1. And I like to use one parameter per line. I admit 
that, as you said in the next post about DCL formatting, that column-wise 
layout is easier to read than the wrap-around stuff of SEU. But the new RSE 
auto-format ain't bad. 

Different strokes, eh?

Vern
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> Any why would I want everything in capitals? 
> 
> Why would you want to prompt on EndDo? To get the lousy waste of space on 
> the left that SEU does? 
> 
> I'll grant that when I do prompt, it's slow. Often times I'll use a 5250 
> session to prompt and paste that in. But I've never liked the formatting 
> from SEU. 
> 
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> 
> There are a lot of problems with the CL prompter. Some were caused by 
> 5.1.2.4. Others, like this one, just don't work. Better than SEU? NOT! 
> 
> Yet, the developers are aware of some of these things. The prompter 
> originated as a command-line prompter, not a programming prompter with 
> variable names and expressions - I dare you to put something in with *CAT 
> - 
> and something as simple as 
> 
> dcl &varname *dec (9 0) 
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> does not get through the prompter correctly. These are things that are 
> second-nature in SEU, and the fact they don't work here makes this a tough 
> 
> sell. 
> 
> BTW, if there are no parameters on a command (such as ENDDO), you cannot 
> prompt it. Sheesh! And there are several cases where prompting does not 
> capitalize things that are not in quotes - not even *CAT operators, e.g. 
> Again, please give us something as good as SEU - this ain't it yet! Either 
> 
> do it everywhere (as SEU does) or not at all. 
> 
> I rant - all you developers have heard me before - I bet you won't get the 
> 
> time you need to really make this work. More's the pity. But maybe you can 
> 
> point out to the money folks that IBM has all this hype and promise, and 
> that this, at least, does not live up to the promise - IMO, anyway. ;-) 
> 
> Vern 
> 
> At 12:25 PM 5/9/2005, you wrote: 
> 
> >Reading along with the new wdsc redbook, I'm trying out the cl formatter. 
> >I prompted a cmd and realized that the variable name can't be longer than 
> >the length of the PARM on the command! And, that the variable name can 
> be 
> >as long as the PARM - i.e. over 10. 
> > 
> >Guess I'll skip to the next chapter. 
> > 
> >Version: 5.1.2.4 
> >Build id: 20050104_2139 
> > 
> >Phil 
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