Re: RDi 9.5 announcement

[Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ken -
<fossil>
*I* remember punch cards.
96 column even.

NOW you know someone that used punch cards.

</fossil>

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Ken Killian <kkillian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Have heard of Word-Wrap? <smirk>
>
> Why be tied to 60-year-plus 80-column old punch cards??? That every RPG
> Developer I know has NEVER used punch cards!
>
> Sorry, I don't know any fossil-type that wrote RPG code on Punch Cards.
> That was WAY BEFORE my time! Thank goodness!
>
> Speak of which, does the LPEX editor have a way to turn on Word-Wrap like
> other editors?
>
> Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Word, NotePad++, just to name a few
> that has word-wrap. Do we have that in RDi? I can't find it.
>
> For XML documents, I use the horizontal scroll bar. Which is okay, I guess.
>
> I would love a ZOOM in/out on the LPEX Text size. But, I know there is
> already a PFE out there for that. Maybe in next decade, we might get that.
> <grin>
>
> -Ken Killian-
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Vern, I'm all for the idea of more than 80, but if I ever had to read code
> statements longer than about 120, I'd require a wrap-around panoramic
> monitor (the single 21" flat screen just wouldn't cut it).  Let's keep it
> within a comfortable field of view, please.  Just because we can doesn't
> mean we should.
>
> Michael Koester
> --
> This is the Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
> Client for System i & iSeries  (WDSCI-L) mailing list
> To post a message email: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
> visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/wdsci-l
> or email: WDSCI-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
> at http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l.