Date:         Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:55:24 -0400
Reply-To:     Art@DrKendall.org
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From:         Art Kendall <Art@DrKendall.org>
Organization: Social Research Consultants
Subject:      Re: Auto indent syntax option
Comments: To: Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
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  Evidently version 19 will have automatic indenting.

FORTRAN 77 (which is the version on DEC machines in 1971) could do it
and it did not have the convention of ending a command with a period.

SPSS colors complete procedures and (in)complete loops etc. so most of
the logic should already be there in the editor.
A statement is incomplete until a period id hit in the text parser.

Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants


On 9/20/2010 9:58 PM, Richard Ristow wrote:
> At 07:11 PM 9/15/2010, Jon K Peck wrote:
>
>> If all you want is for every indented line (maybe ignoring blank
>> lines) to have a plus or dash inserted at the front, that would be a
>> pretty easy scripting job, and you could even create a toolbar button
>> for that.
>
> Would it be that easy? You'd have to distinguish indented lines that
> begin new statements from indented lines that continue existing
> statements. I've run into that often enough, using a text editor to
> do the indenting.
>
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