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Entering Text
Enter text into the Procedure Editor by typing as you would in any other editor. Text you enter into the current buffer appears at the location of the cursor. The cursor is a place marker in text. The location of the cursor is referred to as the insertion point.
You can use the keyboard arrow keys to relocate the insertion point. You can also choose Search
Goto Line to move the insertion point to a specific line number within the current buffer. See the “Search
Goto Line” section in "Procedure Editor Reference" for more information on this option.
Entering Special Characters
There are some characters that you cannot type directly into the edit buffer. To represent ASCII control characters or other character codes that the keyboard cannot generate directly (8-bit codes, for example), type the three-digit octal code of the character, preceded by a tilde (~). For more information about special characters, see the Progress Language Reference.
When you write procedures with the Procedure Editor, you can use uppercase, lowercase, or mixed case. The Progress Compiler recognizes that table, TABLE, and Table are the same word.
Entering Long Text Lines
You can create and edit text lines longer than 80 characters using the Procedure Editor.
You can use a tilde (~) as the last non-blank character on a line to indicate that the line is continued, beginning with column 1 of the next line in the window, as shown in the following example:
The Progress Compiler interprets the lines in this example as the following single line:
The Procedure Editor does not change the physical presentation you give the file. When you use a tilde to connect two lines, the Procedure Editor maintains the tilde in the code. The Procedure Editor saves it and displays it. However, the Compiler compiles the file without the tilde.
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