How do you maximize productivity when writing filepro code in a 24x80?

[Nancy Palmquist]

Stanley,

I use a blending of tools.  I have my Unix servers filepro folders 
shared to windows, so I can see what I want from windows.  It takes a 
bit of permission planning but works great.  I found an editor called 
NoteTab that respects the colon bits and you can set it to save a 
process table in UNIX mode or Windows Mode.  (Difference is linefeed).  
But if it opens a Unix file it saves a Unix file so you usually don't 
have to worry.  But you could open a windows process table and save it 
as a Unix process by changing the file type to Unix. (Obviously, you 
have to adjust the name)  It also makes a backup file when I load the 
table.  After you need to run it by the syntax checker to make sure it 
is good.

I can open as many files as I highlight - say all the prc. files in a 
folder.  I can search/replace through them all, etc.  They are just in a 
large document so paging is easy. Each file opens as a tab in the editor.

This has given me the best solution for editing so far.

I do have Unix tools that can search for text in a lot of files all at 
once, but you can't beat Windows editors for cut and paste features.  (I 
am VI challenged - Never took to it at all on *NIX platforms like some 
of my fellow programmers.)

If ANZIO is being used to go to a computer outside your network, this 
method certainly would not work, but in-house it works great. BTW - I 
use ANZIO to make a session in Unix but when I have a large amount of 
editing the method above works well.

Nancy

On 8/26/2016 2:01 AM, Stanley - stanlyn.com via Filepro-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
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> Just wondering how I can interact with filepro's 24x80 fixed screen
> environment where I can only see  6 logic lines at any one time.  This is
> really becoming a problem when writing complicated code.  For the past 18
> years, I've grown accustomed to using large monitors and being able to see
> 70-100 lines at once and being able to copy and paste blocks of code.
>
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> Thanks to Anzio, I am able to copy and paste segments of code, but only a
> line at a time.  I also wished Anzio respected the traditional crtl-c and
> ctrl-v commands instead of only the right-click menu copy/paste commands.
>
>   
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> In the old days with an env variable ascii  turned on, I used Scripsit to
> edit the raw prc.tables.  I really don't want to deal with all the embedded
> colons.  Hard to quickly read and check its syntax.
>
>   
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> Also note that my filepro is running on SCO instead of Windows, where I
> imagine the prc could be easily opened in something as simple as notepad.
>
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> THE QUESTION IS.  How are you doing developing in filepro?  I'm sure most of
> you are developing on multi large screen monitors with each running in 1920
> mode.  I'm just trying to be more productive in the filepro ide and
> struggling is an understatement.
>
>   
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> Thanks,
>
> Stanley
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