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

[Stanley - stanlyn.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: Stanley - stanlyn.com [mailto:stanley at stanlyn.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 4:37 PM
To: 'Bob Rasmussen' <ras at anzio.com>
Subject: RE: How do you maximize productivity when writing filepro code in a
24x80?

Thanks Bob, 

Works like a champ!  Just what I was missing...

Stanley



-----Original Message-----
From: Filepro-list
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+stanley=stanlyn.com at lists.celestial.com] On
Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 1:34 PM
To: Brian K. White <brian at aljex.com>
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: How do you maximize productivity when writing filepro code in a
24x80?

Sorry I didn't notice the original post. In Anzio you CAN make ctrl-C and
ctrl-V be Copy and Paste, instead of being sent to the host. Go to
Edit:Advanced options:Keys. Or you can use ctrl-insert and shift-insert. 
Or you can create your own macros (in AnzioWin, not Lite).

On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Brian K. White via Filepro-list wrote:

> On 8/26/2016 2:01 AM, Stanley - stanlyn.com via Filepro-list wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>
> In theory it could be done, but as far as I know no one has managed 
> much in that way yet.
>
> You can open the prc files in vi or any editor you like of course 
> (assuming ABE=ascii).
>
> And I once made vim syntax highlighting files for vim and cooledit 
> (midnight commander), and the coloring helped *slightly* by making the
LABEL : IF :
> THEN sections all different background colors from each other, or by 
> making the colons outlandishly ridiculously different from anything 
> else so the really stood out at a glance.
>
> I tried to make vim display each line of prc as 2 lines on-screen, 
> greenbar fashion, to make a more space-compact version of the cabe 
> display, YET also have vim still retain a correct idea of what line in 
> the file it's actually editing when you edit something on-screen. I 
> never could get it, but I still believe the syntax language is 
> actually powerful enough to define something that strange, just it 
> requires a vim syntax expert, which there's probably about 4 of those 
> in the world, who are all probably vim authors! In fact, I bet it's 
> even theoretically possible to get it to hide the real colons from the 
> display, but write them in the file, and display ^a as colon in the
display, and write a ^a in the file for a typed colon.
>
> Next you still have to load the file in cabe to tokenize it.
>
> I think Bob Stockler used to have vim macros to invoke cabe from 
> within vim to syntax check and tokenize the table you were editing, 
> while staying in vim. I never got that fancy myself. Bob is no longer 
> with us, but JPR may have his stuff available for ftp download.
>
> My old vim and cooledit files are here:
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20050218041341/http://www.aljex.com/fp/vim/
> http://web.archive.org/web/20090107003131/http://www.aljex.com/fp/mced
> it/
> Also: 
> http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/2014-May/030816.ht
> ml
>
> Barry Wiseman might have something to offer actually. I think he 
> follows this list, but not closely. If he doesn't react to this in the 
> next day or so I'll ask him.
>
> --
> bkw
>
> _______________________________________________
> Filepro-list mailing list
> Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes 
> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list
>

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
  company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
           voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
             fax: (US) 503-624-0760
             web: http://www.anzio.com
  street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.
                  10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9
                  Portland, OR  97223  USA
_______________________________________________
Filepro-list mailing list
Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes
http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list