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Nifty editing tip
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From
11/07/2002 12:04:15
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00677532
Message ID:
00677583
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>Found entirely by misteak while editing some code with MODI COMM:
>
>Mundane: Block/highlight a word or phrase in the VFP editor, then press the tab key: the highlighted text is replaced with a tab, as expected.
>
>Nifty: Block/highlight one or more lines in the VFP editor, then press the tab key: the highlighted text is indented. Bonus: press the Shift-Tab (backtab): the highlighted text is unindented. Faster and easier than right-clicking and choosing indent or unindent from the pop-up menu.
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>Works in VFP7 and 6; I don't have access to any earlier version to try.
>
>Happy editing!

Another editing feature you may not be aware of:

Type some text in the Command window. Might be several lines.

Select it.

Press ENTER.

VFP will execute this code. (Since it creates a temporary PRG to do this, variables declared in the code may be non-existent later on.)

Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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