Re: Snippets

["Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc." <mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You know what, while this is true, I really shouldn't have to worry about where the cursor is positioned, it should just format properly. However, I have yet to find a code format key sequence for RPG (LPEX) as there is for Java (Eclipse). So maybe that is currently too much to ask.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ----- 
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/26/2015 06:54PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Snippets

Same here, each line starts with 5 blanks and I always position to the
start of line using home key before selecting the snippet.  Works great.
I've had good luck using the ellipsis on my fixed d-specs with placeholders
(I cannot use free-form D-specs cause we're stuck at 6.1).


On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Dave Shaw <daveshawmrc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Are you saying that you don't write your snippets for insertion at column
> 1? I've always treated them as full lines, and haven't had any alignment
> issues.
>
> Dave Shaw
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Terry Hertel" <T.Hertel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [WDSCI-L] Snippets
>
> I have several snippets that I use for nearly every program that I write
> and have just learned to live with the alignment issues in P and D specs in
> subprocedures that arise when using variables and placeholders. However, I
> just created a snippet that is completely free-form calc specs (by pasting
> in code from an existing program), created two variables, and inserted the
> placeholders into the code. When I insert the snippet into my program, the
> first line is positioned at the cursor and all of the following lines are
> adjusted all the way to the left, which of course generates a bunch of pink
> error messages and forces me to block that section of the code and adjust
> it to the proper position. I tried to paste the block of code into the
> snippet using ALT/R to mark the block and ALT/Z to paste it into the
> snippet, but ALT/Z is not recognized there. The only way I have found so
> far to remedy this is to add a bunch of spaces to the front of lines 2-5 in
> the snippet (so the if/endif
>   statements don't line up in the snippet). Does anyone else have a better
> solution? There has been a lot of discussion about pasting into the editor
> but shouldn't snippet insert with correct alignment?
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