The Features of ABAP New Editor Part 2

By Suresh Kumar Parvathaneni

Working with Colors and Fonts: 

Switch to the new editor (if the default editor shown is the old editor). 

In the New ABAP editor, click on the button “options” available at the bottom of the right hand side, as shown in the below screen shot:

Following pop-up appears:

Now select “Fonts and Colors” available on the left side.

Using this, you can design how the screen should look like, For example, you can dictate how the comments should appear (like Font, size, foreground color and background color). Let us take the same “comments” section for our scenario here. 

Comments are currently displayed as shown below:

Now click on the options button and select “Fonts and Colors”. Select “Comments” from the list box:

Now change the way you would like the options to appear in this section:

Save and check how the way comments appear now.

Working with Code Templates: 

To view the Code Templates currently available, Click on “Options” as shown earlier. Now click on “Code Templates” option available on the left side.

You would observe the code templates available for use with the editor. Click on any code template to understand further.

Above screenshot is for “DO”. We would use this for our demo purpose to better understand the code template. 

Write some sample code in your editor.

Now select your program code and click the right button of the mouse. Select -> Format -> Surround by template -> Do () (as shown in the following screenshot) 

Now observe your code:

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