When you open a source member or
file, you cannot change it until this token highlighting process completes.
When you make changes to a line,
the colors of the tokens are updated before you move your cursor off of the line.
The status line in an Editor
window shows me:
To show only comment lines in the
source:
To find all occurrences of a
particular string in the source, I can use:
To determine the beginning and
ending of constructs I can use the:
At the top of the editing area is
a line that can help me keep track of the columns in my ILE RPG/400 specification lines.
The line is:
If I want to insert lines into a
file using prompts, I can select the Insert prompt from the Edit
meun bar choice. The Editor displays prompt windows to insert RPG specification lines
until I select Cancel.
I can press F1 on
specification fields. A help window appears. Some words in the help appear in different
color. These are help links to additional help on that word.
Pressing Alt+N
moves your cursor to the previous error in the file.
Automatic syntax checking by
default is turned on for ILE RPG source which means the syntax of each line of source code
is automatically checked when you make a change to a line and move the cursor off of it.