Re: What subroutine am I in?

[Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doh,

Thanks Buck.

I'd spotted that the outline feature worked for the whole subroutine now,
not just the structured blocks, but I hadn't observed that it shows you the
name at the bottom of the screen!

It also works for subprocedures.
Nice one.

If you are in a subroutine inside a subprocedure, it just shows the
subroutine as I guess I would have anticipated.

On 14 October 2016 at 15:42, Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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