Re: Source Compare/Merge added to RSE Extensions

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/23/2006 10:53:52 AM:

Is there a way to do a find/replace on one of the members I am 

comparing? I

would like to limit it to one or the other member.  I do a comparison 

every

time I get updates from a software vendor, and have to alter parts of 

the

CLP code for testing, and they repeat many times.  I have been using the
Code/400 compare to do this (one of the last things I use Code/400 for) 

as

this ability has not yet been made available in the RSE environment.

I assume you tried looking at the menu options, Ctrl-F etc?  The editor 
itself is provided by Eclipse.  I would kind of assume that they would 
have stuff like that in it, but at the same time I know they are trying to 
walk a fine line in producing something capable of general editing, and 
something that is optimized for doing a merge.  When I am using it for 
Java, I would usually use it to step through merging what I want, and then 
I would save and close the editor and re-open the Java source in the 
normal editor.

I believe the compare framework now lets you provide a somewhat real 
editor, which is why when doing it with Java you still have most, if not 
all, of the editor features.  I am leaving it up to IBM to eventually 
provide this.  Part of the reason I am able to provide something like 
this, when IBM hasn't, is that I can stop short of adding some of the 
features that they pretty much would have to.  So I do not think we will 
get any language-aware editor features until IBM is able to make it all 
work with LPEX and provide the feature natively.  This is meant as a 
stop-gap to keep you out of Code/400 until they can do that.

Mark