Re: justifying RDi when WDSCi 'still works'

Porterfield, Sean wrote:

From: Joe Pluta
Search featuer alone pays for the price of the tool. But that's just me.

What's the search feature you mentioned twice in this thread that's so great? Find within a source member or something else?

Search in RDi is fantastic. You can search a member, a file, or a library, you can search multiple files across multiple libraries, you can use wildcards, you can even create your own filters which select arbitrary members and then scan against that. Think of it as PDM option on ultra-steroids.

More important to me, though is the fact that it shows you ALL the matches in a nice, succinct tree view, showing the entire matching line so that you can easily see which matches makes sense. And then, you simple double-click on a line and the source is opened and positioned to that line.

For me, it saves me anywhere between five minutes and a half an hour a day, sometimes more.

(Note: If I'm editing RPG, I'm going to use WDSCi not SEU. As for ADTS vs RDi licenses, PDM is still extremely useful for many things, and our security officer regularly uses SEU to display/print programs for auditors. She would not be happy to be forced into using a bloated PC package when SEU loads in less than a second.)

I hear this complaint over and over. I don't see it because I always have it open. I open RDi when I reboot my PC and leave it up, sometimes for weeks at a time. That being said, I don't consider it a tool for system operators (or auditors). It's a programmer's tool.

Joe