Re: Squiggly yellow lines

[Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Edmund,

I have witnessed the squigglies almost always extending well past the scope
of the unrecongnizable grammar.  It is never limited to the "line" or
"statement" I am keying.  Usually it wil stop at something concretely
recognizable, like the beginning of a procedure.  I've gotten used to
ignoring them because usually the hover message on the yellow triangle (on
the left) is generally meaningless.

Example (nonsensical of course):

     d x               s              5i 0
     d someData        s              1a   dim( 10 )

      /free

       for x = 1 to 10;

         if someData( x ) = *blanks;
           someData( x ) = 'X';
         endif;

       endfor;

       return;

      /end-free

Insert a line before the "for", and key just an "s" on it.  See it light up
with yellow squiggles?  Now put "elect" without a semi on the end.  Lights
up differently.  Now add the semi.  Different again.
Now, add a line and put a "when" on it, no ending semi.  Now add the
semicolon.
Now add a line and put "end" on it (not endsl) and see it light up well
down source as well.

Imagine a hundred lines of code between the error and the next recognizable
syntax -- it gets distracting as Terry pointed out.

Stu




On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Edmund Reinhardt <
edmund.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Terry,
> As of the live RPG support in 8.5, RDi is now building a model of your RPG
> with every key stroke and maintaining the outline view among other things.
>
> If we are unable to build this model due to a severe RPG syntax error
> (severe enough that our grammar gets confused and is unable to recognize
> the rest of the file)   then this is highlighted with an annotation (which
> does show up as the triangle, the exact syntax that is confusing the
> grammar is highlighted with the squiggly underline.   This is similar to
> the behaviour you get with the best editing tools in Eclipse.
> You could avoid this behaviour by going to the static outline, but I
> sincerely recommend learning to take advantage of the behaviour.  This live
> model is going to be the basis of a lot of great tooling we want to provide
> you.
> If it is complaining about valid RPG, then this is something I want to know
> about right away, because this will mean that all of the tooling on top of
> the live model will not work beyond that point in the file.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
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> From:   Terry Hertel <T.Hertel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "'wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:   06/11/2013 04:34 PM
> Subject:        [WDSCI-L] Squiggly yellow lines
> Sent by:        wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> I am using RDi 9.0.0.1 and just made my first coding error (tongue in cheek
> of course). Seriously, while I was entering a new select group, the editor
> added yellow squiggly lines to the uncompleted lines as well as adding a
> yellow triangle to the left of the line number on some of the lines. I
> assumed it was because I hadn't entered the ENDSL line yet. I wasn't sure
> how I felt about this at first but then decided I kind of liked it until I
> found that the yellow squiggly lines and yellow triangles are sometimes
> placed on lines well beyond where the error occurred; lines that had no
> issues. First, is this the expected behavior in RDi? Second, how does RDi
> decide where to start adding the yellow squigglies and where to quit?
> Third, is there a preference to turn them off if the lines that aren't in
> error become distracting?
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