Re: Multiple issues with CL Source editing -- WDSCI-L

Dan,

Apparently you are nearly as old as I am. I took Typing 1 in HS (1971) so I could play football my senior year (you had to be in 4 classes. I had Psych and English for two and I forget what the other was.) Once football season was over, I only had the two classes and worked the rest of the day. It took me 8 years to find the profession I wanted to use my typewriting skills.

I haven't heard about disappearing the feature of using monitors at portrait. Mine doesn't actually rotate, but I put it on a post and mounted one landscape and the other portrait. Windows did the rest. And that's the extent of my hardware knowledge. I'm probably wrong. I can't believe that monitors will lose a capability that they once had. Wait... no, I can believe that. I been around too long.

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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 3:16 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] 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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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 2:48 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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

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