I like it. Key suggestion? Control-equals (similar to ctrl-/ and ctrl-\ handles the comments).
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 6:17 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Next release - Paste Overlay
On 6/18/2015 4:11 PM,
MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
But Roger may be proposing an easier work around. Simply paste in the text
you're trying to copy from Excel, etc. Then block out the area for the "+
dlm +" and then do a block fill. Of course I'm sure Buck could propose
some kind of scripting to do that even easier, or at least point out how
scripting is lacking in Eclipse.
<grin> My work here is done... I no longer need reply on my own!
Seriously though, I'm a 35+ year RPG veteran. In my opinion, the
column-orientation that we like is part of the RPG aesthetic. We prefer:
dcl-s v_fulnam like(n_fulnam);
dcl-s v_addr1 like(n_addr1);
dcl-s v_city like(n_city);
over
dcl-s v_fulnam like(n_fulnam);
dcl-s v_addr1 like(n_addr1);
dcl-s v_city like(n_city);
The special RDi Alt-M, -D, -C and fill selection commands are a nice
touch, but I'm not sure if they (alone) make it easy to do the sort of
formatting I like to see. For instance, given this:
v_fulnam = %trim(v_fulnam) + ' ' + v_last;
v_addr1 = v_raddr1;
v_city = v_rcity;
I'd like to select the block of text, press a key and have the editor
align everything around the = sign:
v_fulnam = %trim(v_fulnam) + ' ' + v_last;
v_addr1 = v_raddr1;
v_city = v_rcity;
Pie in the sky? Probably. If I get some time next week I'll try to
write that plug-in code and see how it goes. So, yeah, I'm advocating a
macro / plug-in, but I'm willing to give it a whirl on my own.
Wish me luck!
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