I have an odd question. I would like to be able to see columns of 8 spaces with alternating shades of grey and white. I am stuck in the world of FORTRAN where spacing is everything. I often get burnt by a right justified column of 8 butting up against a left justified column os 8 and screwing up which characters or flags belong in which column. If there was a way I could have the columns be distinguished via color shading, I'd save countless hours of searching through text. Does anyone have any ideas on how the all powerfull textpad could be made to do that? Any advice is welcome.
Thanks to all
Young Fortran sufferer
Column Shading
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Being a cobol man then columns are important.
I created a Cobol class and set the tabulation - therefore I can tab to the correct column to type in, you can set it so the editor maintains the indent, or on the next line you can back tab to prior columns.
To verify you have data in the correct columns you can use "block select mode", highlight a column, check down it for any characters that have encroached from another column and correct.
I do not know a way to change the background colours of columns - I do not think there is a way of doing that. Once used to the editor you will not need different colours.
All mentioned above is in the Help.
I created a Cobol class and set the tabulation - therefore I can tab to the correct column to type in, you can set it so the editor maintains the indent, or on the next line you can back tab to prior columns.
To verify you have data in the correct columns you can use "block select mode", highlight a column, check down it for any characters that have encroached from another column and correct.
I do not know a way to change the background colours of columns - I do not think there is a way of doing that. Once used to the editor you will not need different colours.
All mentioned above is in the Help.