Re: Snippets

[Terry Hertel <T.Hertel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that reminder Stuart. I knew about that at one time, and I do all my procedure names that way, but where I usually have the problem is with spacing in the parameter keywords. I didn't want to have two lines for each parameter, so I just live with making a horizontal adjustment. 

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date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:29:01 -0600
from: Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Snippets

When I do this, I use the elipsis after each name or whatever -- like the
snippet for a procedure might have a variable for ${procname} right?  SO
you code it like this:

d ${procname}...
d               pr

instead of

d ${procname}   pr







On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Terry Hertel
<T.Hertel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I use snippets quite a bit. If you don't have TR7 installed or simply
> choose not to use free-form specs and are using fixed format D-specs, there
> are some minor issues with snippets. When creating the snippet, if you
> paste in source from a valid section of fixed format code and change some
> of the code to placeholders, it will look like everything is aligned
> correctly, but when you insert the snippet into the target program, some of
> the data may not be inserted into the correct columns if the placeholder
> name is longer than the variable name that replaces it. It's not a big deal
> to adjust the formatting by inserting or deleting spaces and certainly
> doesn't stop me from using snippets. If you want to use snippets with fixed
> format code, you may want to vote for this RFE:
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=29017,
> or make the switch to free-from D-specs.