Re: PDM/SEU

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxx]

 >> Whatever productivity gains you may find with the ability to cut and paste
you still lose time when trying to correctly position RPG source.

Leslie, I don't wish to be rude but perhaps you should look at how Code/400 and
other AS/400 editors work before we continue this discussion.

 >> The day someone gives me a low cost editor with promptable source records on
the PC I will switch too.


That day has been here for some years (depending on your defintion of "low
cost") - Code Studio from Cozzi Research if currently a free download for the
beta. The IBM and Aldon products are both available for free trial (and for the
IBM version "trial" can last a long time).

_All_ of the AS/400 related editors (as far as I know) address the problems you
mention and do it _way_ better than SEU.  Code/400 for example (and I suspect
the others too) actually know what the Tab key is for!!  When I hit tab on a C
spec it moves from factor to factor correctly.  When I do it on a D spec it
moves correctly.  When I hit tab in SEU it goes .... wrong!

Prompting works the same as in SEU but better since the selection of the correct
prompt is much simpler.  If I hit F1 on an op-code it shows me the page from the
manual.  If I comment a line out it changes color and I don't waste time
debugging comment lines .... etc. etc. I am only scratching the surface here and
not even mentioning being able to double-click on an erromessage and have the
editor positioned on the field ......

I am _not_ a fan of GUI for everything - but I would never give up Code/400 for
_any_ version of SEU no matter how much it was enhanced.  To quote Charlton
Heston <g> ...........


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