The New ABAP Editor

The New ABAP Editor
The New ABAP Editor (Part 1)

By
Suresh Kumar Parvathaneni
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The New ABAP Editor
Table of Contents 1 2 3 OVERVIEW.............................................................................................................. 3 1.1 PRE-REQUISITES ................................................................................................... 3 SHIFTING TO NEW ABAP EDITOR ................................................................... 4 FEATURES IN NEW ABAP EDITOR .................................................................. 5 3.1 FIRST LOOK ......................................................................................................... 5 3.2 DISPLAY FEATURES ............................................................................................. 5 3.2.1 Line Numbers:....................................................................................... 5 3.2.2 Changed Line Indicators:.................................................................... 5 3.2.3 Bookmarks: ........................................................................................... 6 3.2.5 Changing the Font and Colors of coding environment................... 6 3.2.6 Window Splitter..................................................................................... 7
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The New ABAP Editor
1 Overview
This article, the first part of a two-article series, takes you on a brief tour of the features available in the new ABAP editor (step by step with screenshots) 1.1 Pre-requisites The new ABAP editor is available with SAP GUI for windows 6.40 patch level 10 or higher. However this new editor is supported from the SAP Version SAP Netweaver 2004s.
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The New ABAP Editor
2 Shifting to New ABAP Editor

Start any of the following transaction codes to access the ABAP workbench: SE38 SE37 SE24 SE37
We would use SE38 for our demo purposes. Procedure to shift between Old ABAP Editor and New ABAP Editor: Go to Utilities Settings
Click on Front-end Editor (New) as shown below
Click
for changes to effect.
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The New ABAP Editor
3 Features in New ABAP Editor

3.1 First Look
View of the new ABAP Editor (from SE38):
3.2 Display Features

Following are some of the features that could be observed while writing the code:
3.2.1
Line Numbers:
As observed in the above screenshot, the new ABAP editor displays the line numbers for easy navigation through the code. 3.2.2 Changed Line Indicators:The changed lines in the current session are marked with .
These indicators would vanish once you come out of the program.
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The New ABAP Editor 3.2.3 Bookmarks: Bookmarks allow in navigating and code editing. There are 9 numbered bookmarks provided by SAP and unlimited unnumbered bookmarks. Bookmarks could be accessed by the right click of the mouse in the Indicator Margin (The complete left portion of the ABAP editor).
To set a bookmark, right click on the Indicative Margin, click on Bookmarks Bookmark 0 (Bookmarks are numbered 0 to 9). A Blue flag with the bookmark number would appear on the Indicative Margin. To navigate to any bookmark marked earlier, right click on the Indicative Margin, Go to Bookmark Bookmark 0.
3.2.4
Code Hints
Code hints appear as you type in ABAP editor. For example, if you start typing for Parameters, following occurs: When typed P, nothing appears. When typed PA, code hint PACK appears. When typed PAR, code hint PARAMETERS appears.
Press ENTER to choose the given code hint.
3.2.5
Changing the Font and Colors of coding environment
Click on , available at the right side bottom of the editor. Click on Fonts and Colors on the left side of the window that is appeared after clicking. From here, we can set different colors and fonts for different elements on the editor.
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The New ABAP Editor 3.2.6 Window Splitter The window splitter allows you to work on different parts of the code simultaneously. The window could be set to splitter mode by double clicking the splitter line above the vertical scrollbar (shown below).
The split screen is seen as below:
The second article would detail about some more features in New ABAP editor like Blocks, Code Templates, Breakpoints and others.
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