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The intricate design of our brain is still a source of wonder and amazement, and with some old programs that occasionally come up for maintenance you may wonder whether there was ever any design to begin with. THE Editor's Choice will help you comprehend even those relics from the Ark.

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Auto-Tab

Ever been frustrated when entering an RPG statement with a Factor 1 value, and there are no other statements to line up with?

One of the long standing criticisms of RPG has been its column based syntax, and the time it takes to move the cursor to the correct position when entering statements. Auto-Tab overcomes this problem by taking a free format statement and correctly aligning it, thus significantly enhancing programmer productivity.
E.g.: RPG3 RPG4-D RPG4-C DDS

Auto-Case

It is often desirable to have comments entered in lower case to help differentiate them from code, however it can be tedious to always have to shift back to upper case for code. Auto-Case Convert recognizes the difference between comments and code, and will automatically convert code to upper case. For example:
'test' ifne 'TEST'
abc andeq DeF

will be converted to:
'test' IFNE 'TEST'
ABC ANDNE DEF

Auto-Tab and Auto-Case working together can dramatically improve productivity. These two alone make THE Editor's Choice indispensable.

CL Formatting

The CL style as published in magazines like iSeries News looks really good, but have you ever tried to enter it - it's so tedious. Then, if you have to maintain that statement with the CL prompter, you just break down and cry.

Now your code can look as good as in the magazine - effortlessly. THE Editor's Choice has enough CL formatting options to satisfy everyone's tastes. Best of all, the formatting is done when you prompt.

You can also have different styles for different source types, so one for CL programs, and another for commands.

CL style rules - Ok!

Copy from Browse with mapping

You are maintaining a new RPG IV program, and need some code from an old RPG III program. About 100 statements worth. It's a lot to re-key, and it is also error prone, so it looks like you will have to exit and run CVTRPGSRC and then copy from that. What a nuisance

THE Editor's Choice to the rescue. Not only can it map old RPG III to RPG IV, but it can also map the column based IV code back to III format. And that's not all, feast your eyes on these mean feats: