Re: Inserting specific text with an Editor Action or Command

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig

Have you looked at key mapping? You should be able to set up a key 
combination that will put any character or characters where you are.

Extra stuff is created using Java, so far as I know - there's a 
development kit within RDi, to help with this kind of thing. David Gibbs 
who runs these lists has done some of this.

You could take a look at iSphere, a nice set of utilities for RDi - 
maybe Thomas Raddatz would be interested in making some kind of utility 
for you.

If you need to fill a block with the same character you can position 
your cursor, press Alt-R, go to the end of your rectangle, press Aot-R 
again - then right-click and press L press E then type your fill 
character or string - this could likely be programmed using the Java 
stuff (which I've never done!)

HTH
Vern

On 8/12/2016 1:26 AM, Craig Richards wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In my pre-RDi days, I wrote an SEU exit program that allowed me to perform
> things like:
>
>     - Insert a comment with a horizontal line across the full source width (
>     as an aid to make it easier to see subprocedure / subroutine boundaries
>     - Insert comment metadata ( either a double slash (//) or a carefully
>     positioned asterisk (*) followed by a hex control character ( usually x'20'
>     ) to make the comment highlighted.
>
> Although I do perform most of my development using RDi these days - I still
> keep with the habit of inserting horizontal line separators and inserting a
> hex character at the beginning of comment text to help it stand out when
> view via SEU which doesn't auto-colour comments.
>
> I have never really found an easy way to do this in RDi, mostly I scroll
> about and select and copy what I need from another place in the source ( I
> usually have one, even the simplest programs I write usually start life as
> a copy of another program )
>
> I did at one point create some snippets with bits of text in I could insert
> but I think they only worked on CALC lines and if you tried to insert
> partway along a new line, the text would insert at the beginning of the
> line, not where the cursor/carat was positioned ( which of course I
> understand, the line doesn't automatically get blank filled up to the
> insertion point )
>
> I think I decided that there wasn't an existing Action or Command that I
> could use for this purpose and I didn't get very far on my only attempt at
> trying to write my own.
>
> Does anyone have an easy way of doing this?
>
> In it's simplest form I guess I'd like to be able to get a predefined
> character inserted at the current carat position by pressing a shortcut key.
>
> Does anyone have a way of doing this or something similar they could point
> me at?
>
> thanks kindly,
> Craig