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March 1, 2009

Consortium Gives RSE Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

System i Developer, which is a consortium of four top educators on IBM i--Susan Gantner, Jon Paris, Paul Tuohy, and Skip Marchesani--have posted a new and expanded version of their popular quick reference guide for users of Remote System Explorer (RSE). The guide, Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts for RSE (WDSC/RDi), consolidates 46 keyboard shortcuts onto a single page and presents them in a format that makes it easy for developers to find the shortcut they need at a glance.

System i Developer says the reverse side features tips on customizing RSE to improve productivity. All of the shortcuts and tips included work with Version 7 of RSE in both WDSC and the newer RDi development environment.

Gantner's Idea

Gantner originally compiled the list of keyboard shortcuts as a teaching aid for students in her RSE courses, and apparently her students appreciated it, leading to the free "cheat-sheet" offering.

With this new release, the guide now offers 10 new keyboard shortcuts, including how to open and close context menus without using a mouse, how to split your screen in the source editor to have two views of the same source member, and how to navigate to specific spots within your code, such as the top or bottom of the source or to/from subroutines and subprocedures.

There's three dozen previous shortcuts, including how to open, close, verify and compile source members more efficiently.

You can also snag additional tips and FAQs for WDSC and RDi users, such as how to create split-screen editing for two different source members and how to use the Outline View, which are also available from the Download section of the System i Developer website.

The consortium's RPG & DB2 Summit is set for April 15-17 in Orlando.

--Chris Maxcer, news editor

Posted by cmaxcer at March 1, 2009 4:32 PM