Re: Where in the RPG am I? An RFE idea

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Make your code shorter, but yeah, I'd vote for this.

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Koester, Michael <mkoester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Perhaps there's a setting, or an open RFE for this, or maybe it's already
> available in a newer RDi version (currently running 9.1.1)?
> Some of my RPG source members are a bit long, and within them, some of the
> subroutines and subprocedures are also a bit long.  I often wonder
> (particularly when I'm searching for occurrences of global variables) where
> I am in the source. The line number tells me I'm in deep, but... Which
> subroutine or subprocedure am I looking at LPEX, and how would I know
> without having to scroll up to find the begsr or P-spec?
> If I'm the first to bring this up, and if I'm not the only one on Planet i
> for whom a solution would be helpful, I'd be happy to offer an RFE to show
> the name of the subroutine or inline subprocedure where the cursor is
> located.  Could be displayed at the top of the LPEX pane to the right of
> the "Line 1187   Column 8   Replace".  Perhaps right-adjusted to the far
> right of the visible window? Or on the very bottom line of the editor,
> between the last visible source statement and the command line?
> Any support for this?
>
> Michael Koester
> Programmer/Analyst
> DataEast - Granite State Communications
>
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