Re: What features should I demonstrate as being smart inWSDCi?

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ha!  Like you or I ever need undo.  :)

(Just needed it less than an hour ago.)


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Dave Shaw <daveshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's the little things, too - no one has mentioned undo/redo.  Don't forget
> to mention that undo even puts the change dates back.
>
> Dave Shaw
> Mohawk Industries
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen" <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:46 PM
> Subject: [WDSCI-L] What features should I demonstrate as being smart
> inWSDCi?
>
>
> Several years back WSDCi was evaluated in our organization by somebody
> unfamiliar with Eclipse and rejected as he could not see any advantages
> in using it with OPM Cobol (yes, not ILE) so we happily work with the
> traditional green screens.
>
> I may now have a chance for undoing that, and I was wondering if there
> was more things that might be interesting to a CObol programmer than
>
> * Many lines on the screen (as witnessed by the recent thread)
>
> * Being able to do a lot of syntax checking while typing (and pressing
> Ctrl-S)
>
> * Having compiler errors in a window and inlined in the editor (I can
> compile a simple Cobol program to do this)
>
> * Having an outline of your source
>
> * Navigate libraries, and files and members, and using RSE Extensions
> seeing spool files etc.
>
> I have considered demo'ing RDP instead but I believe the price tag would
> be strongly prohibitive.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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