Re: Multiple issues with CL Source editing

Good points.

I try to avoid SEU, but obviously cannot get entirely away from it. However, I'm still learning how to get around the issues you have suggested.

I use two monitors, one landscape, one portrait (same size). I move all but the editor to the landscape, leaving the editor at full screen on the portrait. Gives me a whole bunch of lines and have the font size leaving me 95 columns if I display the date also. But I'm good with the occasional need to go beyond the 95 for comments or something. Fortunately RDi remembers my preferences and I don't have to reset all the time. I switch monitors when I want to do a iSphere side by side comparison. That's not too convenient, but it works.

"old school" is ok as long as it's not also "hunt and peck". Hope that's not what you mean by "old school".

Duane

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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Multiple issues with CL Source editing

For the time being, I keep mine at 100 for two reasons:

1) On occasion, I will print source members via SEU. When a line extends past column 100, it wraps to a new line, which is annoying to read, especially when it splits something in half to print it.

2) While RDi can scroll left and right, I prefer not to deal with that. I am an old-school keyboardist at heart, and I like to see all columns of code without having to scroll. My current monitor, with the default RSE panes, allows 100 character lines in the editor that are readable to me.
Perhaps if we ever get monitor upgrades, I could be persuaded to use longer lines.

2a) I just remembered that I can maximize the editor pane; and it appears that it can show about 160 characters per line. Hmmm...

- Dan

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Duane Scott <dscott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dan,

I had been using 100 for years before coming here. I never even
thought to look until my compiler started choking on missing source.
Surprise, surprise.

I'm thinking that 100 is going to be the standard here unless somebody
convinces me or my handlers that a larger number is better.

Thanks

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On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Duane Scott <dscott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Third is the problem of what to set as the record length for the CL
Source file. Since the compiler will accept 100 column commands,
and the settings on RDi are "*RCDLEN", "80" and "100", one would
think that the new record length for CL Source Files should be 112.
But record length for CL is not specifically discussed in more
recent issues

of manuals that I could find.

RPG has quite a few discussions of longer settings being available.
I'm not sure if we should stick to 80, move to 100, or go beyond.
The fact that some of our programmers and operations staff still use
SEU is of issue, but I'd like to hear some other viewpoints.

I've been using 100-character source lines (record length=112) for CL
for at least several years now. I really can't remember when/if the
compiler ever choked at anything past column 80. It's true that the
command prompter in SEU always formats assuming 80-character length,
but that never meant that you couldn't code anything yourself after column 80.

- Dan
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