Snippets

SNIPPETS

Snippets View

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To open a snippets view:

• Window -> Show view -> Other -> Basic -> Snippets

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Create a Snippets Category

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• You only need to create a Category once, conceptually its like CRTSRCPF.
• Create as many Categories as you wish.

• -Right-click in the Snippets view and select Customize
• -Click the New button and create a new category
• -Click the New button and create a new snippet
• -Click on the snippet and then click the New button that is adjacent to the Variables list
• -Enter your snippet and use the Insert Variable Placeholder button to add the variable

Use snippets for RPGLE, CLLE, DSPF and PRTF source members.

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Snippets RPG

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You can use the snippets to insert stuff into your program.

To create your own RPG snippets,

• you can open the view in RSE or iSeries Editing perspective,
• select your source,
• and right click / Past in the snippets view, into your Previously created Category.

It will then create a new template.

To use the snippet;

• Open a source member for editing.
• Place the cursor where you want the code.
• Go to the Snippets view, to the Category where the snippet is.
• Double click on the snippet and it appears in the source

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Another method is to create a Snippet.

1.  Open the Snippets view.
2.  Create a new 'Drawer' for your snippets.
3.  Copy some source.
4.  Right-click in your snippet drawer, paste.
5.  This will bring up the snippet creation wizard.

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External links

The official WDSC web page [5]

The WDSC Developer blog [6]

WDSC tags on del.ici.ous [7]