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About the Procedure Editor
When you start the Progress character client, the Procedure Editor is the first tool that you see. The Procedure Editor is a text editor that allows you to enter, edit, and save text in text files. The Procedure Editor is your hub for most programming tasks in the Progress toolset. You can use the Procedure Editor to create, compile, and run Progress procedures. A procedure is a series of Progress language statements that perform a desired data processing task.
Figure 2–1 shows the Procedure Editor main display.
Figure 2–1: Procedure Editor Main Display
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The main display of the Procedure Editor contains several features:
- Menu bar — Allows you to access and execute tasks. Each item on the menu bar is a menu title. A menu provides access to menu options. Menu options perform tasks.
- Insertion point — Marks the location where text appears when you start typing.
- Procedure area — The visible part of the current edit buffer. This is where you type and edit Progress procedures.
- Name of current buffer — Shows the name of the current edit buffer. An edit buffer is a temporary work area for procedures under construction in the Procedure Editor. The Procedure Editor allows you to open several buffers simultaneously. If a buffer has no name assigned, it appears as “Untitled” plus a number that makes it unique (Untitled:1).
- Status area — Where Progress displays helpful information for the user. By default, the Procedure Editor displays a list of keystrokes that perform basic tasks.
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