Re: Ruler at top of editor

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's good to hear, Edmund - the indenting in free that we have now is 
nice, yet it doesn't rearrange itself after-the-fact.

So I look forward to more advanced stuff in this arena.

Cheers
Vern

On 12/19/2013 5:55 PM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:
> I see your point, but if you look at the line above it tells you exactly
> what line and column you are on.  So are you really missing any
> information.
> BTW, the highest voted RFE is to provide indentation and formatting, so it
> is definitely on my radar screen.
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> Regards,
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> From:	Terry Hertel <T.Hertel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:	"'wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:	19/12/2013 04:58 PM
> Subject:	Re: [WDSCI-L] Ruler at top of editor
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> I prefer to have the ruler too. For one thing, it is easier to see where
> columns 6 and 7 are. Free-Form+++++ tells me nothing. I also just noticed
> that that as I arrow down through a sub-procedure, the ruler area changes
> as follows: last D-spec = column names, blank line = column names from
> previous D-spec, /Free = ruler, blank line = column names from previous
> D-spec, free format line = Free-From+++++.
>
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> Interesting - I am guessing that it came with the full free-format support.
>
>   In that support, maybe you aren't supposed to need to know what column you
> are in. Me, I've still prefer to know that, for alignment, because I still
> don't see the editor doing the best job of alignment when inserting and all
> that - Visual Studio's way of handling VB, with adjustment up and down
> everything, can be much better.
>
>   Vern
>
>   On 12/19/2013 3:01 PM, Terry Hertel wrote:
>
> I just installed the fixpack for RDi, bringing me up to version 9.0.1. I am
> not sure when this behavior changed but it is different than 8.5.1:
>
>   When I open a source member with a comment as the first line, the line at
> the top of the editor is like a ruler, "....+....1....+....2" etc. In
> version 8.5.1, as I scroll down through the program and put my cursor on a
> free format line, the ruler is still displayed. In version 9.0.1, the same
> behavior is exhibited when I open the source member, but when I scroll down
> and put my cursor on a free format line, the line at the top of the editor
> window shows "Free-Form+++++++++++++". When did that change and was it
> intentional?
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