Re: Promoting WDSCi, RDp and/or RDi

Losing source hasn't happened to me for quiet a while. But a couple years
ago when it did, I would navigate to the source in the workspace and open
it from there. Then I would press Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+C to select and
copy everything to the clipboard. Then I would close the editor, delete
the source from the workspace, and reopen it. This would open the
original, unmodified source. Then I would do a Ctrl+A and Ctrl+V to
replace the entire member with my updated version. You still lose the
source-line change dates, but at least the source is correct.

Michael

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/20/2013 07:37:01 AM:

----- Message from Paul Bailey <PaulBailey@xxxxxxxxxx> on Fri, 20
Dec 2013 11:19:29 +0000 -----

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Re: [WDSCI-L] Promoting WDSCi, RDp and/or RDi

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to force RDi on to my colleagues
but when green-screen programmers of 20-30 years experience do adopt
the new tool solely on my casual advice but then fall foul of such a
critical bug as losing/misplacing source code changes then I feel a
fool for promoting the tool. Happily, both programmers who suffered
yesterday are (as I type) upgrading RDi to v9.0.1 and look like they
will continue using it. (The SEU users who like to argue against RDi
are looking a little smug today, though.)

I don't think I ever used the REXX macros in Code/400... what did
you do with them then that would be useful in today's RDi?



-Paul