RE: Tabs in SEU

["Tyler, Matt" <mattt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,
        My entire point is that SEU does not have true bugs, just
limitations we do not like.  I can see the entire source line (is called
wide display).  I can color source lines (just not individual words).  I can
review errors from a compile (even compile from within SEU).  I can set up
tabs (which I do not do).  I can get basic help (I usually keep the PDF near
by for additional help).  I do not have to know where my temporary edit
session is in order to recover.

        I have never been able to code a screen that would color a single
word even unless there was a space between the previous word and the
following word.  I did not use DSM or UDDS, however.  I know that SEU does
use something different, but that does not mean that not color coding is a
BUG, its just not enhanced.

        I never have SEU crash when editing good data within a source
member.  If you supply crappy data, of course, it will not respond correctly
but IBM assumed you would not be editing packed data.

        So, SEU is only as buggy as CODE/400 and TABS can be set in SEU.
And this is the last I will put to this.  I in no way meant to stomp on
others views of CODE/400 and in no way feel others steeped on mine.


Thank you,
Matt Tyler
Mattt@wincofoods.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Maynard [mailto:jmaynard@conmicro.cx]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 14:03
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Tabs in SEU

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:38:36PM -0500, rob@dekko.com wrote:
> No it isn't.  IBM makes color terminals.  Most terminal access nowadays is
> with a pc based 5250 emulator - and these support colors.  Nope, the bug
> is in SEU.

Sorry, that's not a bug, merely a feature missing from the design. A bug is
when the program operates incorrectly. Unless SEU claims to do syntax
coloring, that it doesn't is not a bug.

Now, I'm willing to grant that it does not include a feature that you
consider necessary, but please stop calling the lack thereof a bug. All
you're doing is confusing the issue.

As for me, the only syntax-coloring editor I've used was in Borland Delphi
4, and while it was nice, its lack is not something that makes me throw
every other editor on every other platform I own out the nearest window.
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