Re: What subroutine am I in?

[Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob,

Good question. I've wondered the same thing although in my case it's
usually - "which subprocedure of a service program am I in".

I've never really figured out if there is an easy way.

I often use a second window for stuff as you describe.

Some other things I do are:

If I want to restrict searches to particular blocks, I right-click the
source then filter view by either subprocedure or subroutine. Then if I
search via the cmd line using :


   - /somedata   ( search forwards, case insensitve )
   - -/somedata ( search backwards case insensitive )
   - 'somedata ( search forwards case sensitive )
   - -'somedata ( search backwards case sensitive )

The search will be restrained within your filtered block a bit like when
you use XX to exclude source in SEU and use "find somedata nx" to not
search excluded lines.

Sometimes I will set a quick mark where I am using Ctrl+Q , then search for
the BEGSR above by Esc ( to get to cmd line ) then -/begsr. Then I can jump
back where I was using Alt+Q.

But I have often thought that a visual marker in the Outline View or some
such thing for reference without jumping about would be good.

best regards,
Craig

On 14 October 2016 at 15:03, Robert Rogerson <rrogerson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm using RDi 9.5.1.
>
> When I'm looking at a field in an RPG program sometimes it would be
> helpful to know the subroutine I'm in.
>
> For example, if I'm looking for where a field is set I usually do this...
>
> Open the member in a second window.  In the first window I scan for all
> occurrences of the variable which allows me to see where the variable is
> set.  But this only shows me the line number so in the second window I
> navigate to  the line number from the first window to see the surrounding
> code.  But my issue is that I still don't know what subroutine I'm in
> without scrolling up to find the Begsr statement.
>
> I have to maintain a lot of (older) code that regularly contains rather
> large subroutines so scrolling up to find the Begsr slows me down.
>
> For me, what would be nice would to be able to see immediately what
> subroutine I'm in.  Is there a way to do this I'm not aware of?  If there
> isn't, would anyone else find the display of the subroutine for the current
> line be useful?  Can anyone share how they tackle this issue currently.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
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