Re: Tab Stops for DDS on 7.0

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's weird. I didn't for me. I type 'A' in column 6 then hit tab and it
jumps to column 45. Guess, I'll just cope. I have been doing that for years
anyway.

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Mike Wills
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Mike
>
> I've not tried this with DDS, but it works with RPG - there's a setting
> in Preferences to control this behavior. Preferences=>Remote
> Systems=>Remote Systems LPEX Editor and turn on the check-box for
> "Column sensitive editing". OK - just tried it in WDSC 7 - it's in the
> same place in RDp 7.6 - and it worked. It is a global setting for the
> LPEX Editor, you can't choose to use it just for DDS and not for RPG.
>
> I'm not aware of a way to set your own tabs, as with the TABS command in
> SEU, but I've not tried it either. Column-sensitive editing drives me a
> little bit crazy, as it stops at every little column along the way - I
> usually either move to the line above and use Ctrl-right arrow to locate
> to something already there, or cursor over or mouse to it.
>
> OTOH, inserts within columns can be pretty cool - it doesn't move the
> stuff in other columns. It's probably fixed by now, but sometimes
> Replace all seemed not to work completely right. As I say, I've not used
> column-sensitive editing for a long time now.
>
> Maybe there's a way to set a key-stroke to toggle the setting. Otherwise
> one can take a few click into Preferences and change as needed. And back
> again.
>
> HTH
> Vern
>
> On 8/25/2010 12:02 AM, Mike wrote:
> > Is there a way to set tab stops for DDS source in WDSc 7.0? It gets
> annoying
> > when I type A then hit tab and it goes to the function column.
> >
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> > Mike Wills
> > http://mikewills.info
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