Re: Multiple issues with CL Source editing

Our monitors at work don't rotate, so there's that. (I've heard that this
feature is disappearing via Q&A on a product web page for a monitor I
purchased a few months ago. Anyone know?) I have three older monitors at
home that do, so I should probably hang on to those.

Lol. No. I took Typewriting I & II in high school, which ages me greatly,
but was, obviously, very helpful for the career I chose three years later.
The "old school" in me avoids using the mouse, by virtue of spending the
first ten years or so of my career stuck with dumb terminals. If Alt-keys
are available in WIndows apps, I'll always use those as opposed to moving
my hand from the keyboard to the mouse, using the mouse, then back to the
keyboard.

- Dan

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Duane Scott <dscott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Good points.

I try to avoid SEU, but obviously cannot get entirely away from it.
However, I'm still learning how to get around the issues you have suggested.

I use two monitors, one landscape, one portrait (same size). I move all
but the editor to the landscape, leaving the editor at full screen on the
portrait. Gives me a whole bunch of lines and have the font size leaving
me 95 columns if I display the date also. But I'm good with the occasional
need to go beyond the 95 for comments or something. Fortunately RDi
remembers my preferences and I don't have to reset all the time. I switch
monitors when I want to do a iSphere side by side comparison. That's not
too convenient, but it works.

"old school" is ok as long as it's not also "hunt and peck". Hope that's
not what you mean by "old school".

Duane

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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Multiple issues with CL Source editing

For the time being, I keep mine at 100 for two reasons:

1) On occasion, I will print source members via SEU. When a line extends
past column 100, it wraps to a new line, which is annoying to read,
especially when it splits something in half to print it.

2) While RDi can scroll left and right, I prefer not to deal with that. I
am an old-school keyboardist at heart, and I like to see all columns of
code without having to scroll. My current monitor, with the default RSE
panes, allows 100 character lines in the editor that are readable to me.
Perhaps if we ever get monitor upgrades, I could be persuaded to use
longer lines.

2a) I just remembered that I can maximize the editor pane; and it appears
that it can show about 160 characters per line. Hmmm...

- Dan