Re: Save AS with RDi - local only?

My opinion of RDI has always been - sure, it's not perfect, but it's
certainly worth the effort.
We can all quote idiosyncratic behaviour.

But what's that saying: "Don't let the perfect be the Enemy of the Good"?

For me - the extra screen real-estate and outline view alone make it worth
putting up with a few imperfections.
RDi is improving all of the time, and the developers are listening to our
concerns / suggestions and acting on them - we even get to vote to help
prioritise the work.

Sure you have to get used to a few new things with RDi but in my view it's
a pretty small list:

- Figure out what rectangular mode means, Alt+R, Alt+U.
- Figure out how do do paste overlay - I set up my own shortcut Alt+V.
- Understand how normal paste works and how it differs to paste overlay
which is what SEU does.
- Figure out how new line works - for myself I set up my own shortcut to
splitAndShift. Pick a method that works for you.
- Learn how to use Esc to toggle from source to cmd line to do things
like search:
- / = search forward case insensitive, -/ = search backwards case
insensitive
- ' = search forward case sensitive, -' = search backwards case
sensitive
- Learn now to split the screen - drag a tab from open member to the
side or bottom of current screen.
- Use Ctrl+Mouse to hyperlink around
- Use Alt+Left to go back.
- Use Shift+Ctrl-A to open members
- Use Shift+Ctrl-O to show outline view
- Ctrl+F5 to refresh view.
- Use Alt+R for rectangular selection, Shift+Down to select a few lines
then try Alt+F7 / Alt+F8 to move the block left or right.
- Shift+Ctrl+V to verify
- Remember Ctrl-Z (undo) is your friend
- Select a source member in test and one in prod from the RSE view (
Mouse+click first, then Mouse+Ctrl+click second ) then right click to
compare with each other.

Off the top of my head that's about a dozen or so of the most common things
I use for basic editing.
Learn those and you've probably covered all you can do in SEU + some added
functionality on top of the fact that you can likely see more than double
the number of source lines and have an outline view to boot!

There a lot more functionality in there and doubtless a few important
things I've missed but nevertheless it's not a massive learning curve and
in my view totally worth it.

That's my take on it anyway...
YMMV...


On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 20:41, Mihael Schmidt <mihael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+1

On 10.02.19 20:52, Ken Killian wrote:

Arco,

Concur!

In Lpex sometimes <enter> splits a line, and sometimes it does not! Try

explaining that to a new developer... <disappointment>

For instance, Enter to split a line does not work before ";" semi-colon.

They have to do an ALT+S to split a line? And Enter does not line up by
last paragraph? Really? So much for consistency on key-usage.

So, I have to explain, if <Enter> does not work, then try Alt+S to

split. You should see the shock-faces? Why does it work? I always say ASK
IBM... <Puzzled-Look>

-Ken Killian-

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Simonse

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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Save AS with RDi - local only?

I really disagree on that. Those 40% (is that the real figure?) that

have not made the transition to RDi, will also not do that in the next ten
years. Just because they can not (their company refuses) or they don't want
to learn something new. Don't spend resources to them. Make RDi an editor
that behaves like other well known editors do! So that new and young
developers feel comfortable with it.

Best regards,
-Arco

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