Re: Tab Stops for DDS on 7.0

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Mike

I've not tried this with DDS, but it works with RPG - there's a setting 
in Preferences to control this behavior. Preferences=>Remote 
Systems=>Remote Systems LPEX Editor and turn on the check-box for 
"Column sensitive editing". OK - just tried it in WDSC 7 - it's in the 
same place in RDp 7.6 - and it worked. It is a global setting for the 
LPEX Editor, you can't choose to use it just for DDS and not for RPG.

I'm not aware of a way to set your own tabs, as with the TABS command in 
SEU, but I've not tried it either. Column-sensitive editing drives me a 
little bit crazy, as it stops at every little column along the way - I 
usually either move to the line above and use Ctrl-right arrow to locate 
to something already there, or cursor over or mouse to it.

OTOH, inserts within columns can be pretty cool - it doesn't move the 
stuff in other columns. It's probably fixed by now, but sometimes 
Replace all seemed not to work completely right. As I say, I've not used 
column-sensitive editing for a long time now.

Maybe there's a way to set a key-stroke to toggle the setting. Otherwise 
one can take a few click into Preferences and change as needed. And back 
again.

HTH
Vern

On 8/25/2010 12:02 AM, Mike wrote:
> Is there a way to set tab stops for DDS source in WDSc 7.0? It gets annoying
> when I type A then hit tab and it goes to the function column.
>
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> Mike Wills
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