Re: Change management systems

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

LOL Bryce

Again, you didn't grow up with SEU. If you are using I to insert every 
line - which you did not say directly - then you aren't using SEU as it 
can be used. Just put an I on the sequence number where you want to 
start, enter code or a space to keep the line intact, and it will open 
up the next line for you to type into - just like hitting enter in WDSC. 
Hey, man, they didn't design WDSC in a vacuum - SEU was in their minds - 
you can use SEU line commands in WDSC, too.

And if you start typing a command and hit F4, you get all the formatting 
you want. AND it gives you that extra line, just as it does as I 
described above.

I am not saying it's better, it's just not as bad as your experience has 
been. But there is not enough reason for you to investigate, and I 
understand that. No problem here with that. I just feel a need to 
confront opinions based on admittedly-limited experience.

Carry on with WDSC! It's a fine IDE. As good as Visual Studio? Not yet, 
IMO. But they keep working at it.

And I wouldn't use vi for much of anything!! Although I do use TextPad 
for editing ASP code, albeit with syntax files and the like. It's not bad!!

Regards
Vern

Bryce Martin wrote:
> Plus, in WDSC you can type the line as long as you want without worrying 
> how many columns wide you are and the editor will reformat the code to fit 
> inside the proper width.  And I can hit the Enter button to get a new 
> line, I don't have to go enter some special command with an I and space 
> and then enter and all that junk.  It doesn't matter what you are editing 
> in my mind, its the fact that editing anything in WDSC is more natural to 
> what you use everywhere else including word documents.
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> Its like linux people who use vi because "its way better"...  I used vi 
> exclusively for C++ when I was in college.... ITS NOT BETTER THAN A GUI 
> IDE!  haha.  feels good to get that out :D
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> Thanks
> Bryce Martin
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> I hated editing CL in SEU and actually don't mind it in WDSCi.  Although 
> 70 lines at a time and color-coding goes a long ways for me.  I even use 
> the outline by setting up tags by section (that I never use GOTO  on).
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
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> rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > Take a class in the GUI tools.  Use it exclusively for a month.  See if 
> > you change your mind.
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> While WDSC / RDi / RDp are very good tools, there are still things that 
> PDM is much better at ... editing CL, for instance.
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> The GUI editors are slow as molasses when it comes to editing CL, but PDM 
> is super fast.
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> david
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