topic Re: EVE - Finding cursor postion in Operating System - OpenVMS

EVE - Finding cursor postion

Jack Trachtman — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:07:43 GMT

Isn't there some way within EVE to see what position in the present line that the cursor sits at? The "WHAT LINE" shows the line number, but I thought there was some cryptic COMMAND entry (like "=" or ".?" or something) that would show the cursor position. Couldn't find anything in the manual. TIA

Re: EVE - Finding cursor postion

Craig A Berry — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:49:26 GMT

For me it's Gold-K, which I achieve by defining the following function in my custom section:

procedure my_get_cursor_pos
column := get_info( current_window, "current_column" );
line := get_info( current_window, "current_row" );
message ( "Column !UL, row !UL", 0, column, line );
endprocedure;

and then in my tpu$local_init:

define_key("my_get_cursor_pos", key_name("K", shift_key), "Show cursor" );

As far as I can tell from searching sys$examples:*.tpu, there is no built-in eve_what_column function corresponding to eve_what_line.

Re: EVE - Finding cursor postion

SDIH1 — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:48:03 GMT

I use on the command prompt of EVE:

tpu message( str(current_offset))

Re: EVE - Finding cursor postion

P Muralidhar Kini — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:11:35 GMT

Hi Jack,

Check the following link -
http://www.openvmssupport.info/re-line-numbers-in-eve

Regards,
Murali

Re: EVE - Finding cursor postion

Jack Trachtman — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:46:43 GMT

Thank you