Re: What features should I demonstrate as being smart in WSDCi?

As someone had mentioned in a previous thread: having multiple sources up at once (I almost always have 4 up, and can go up to the double-digits, although that's usually if I'm working on a project them have to deal with something else before getting back to it).

-Kurt

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Subject: [WDSCI-L] What features should I demonstrate as being smart in WSDCi?

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?