SAP Note 24208 - Cut&Paste in the SAPscript editor

Symptom:

Customer inquiry:
How can you enter a text in the SAPscript editor with Cut&Paste without any changes?

Cause and prerequisites

Request for consulting

Solution

Every time a function key or return is pressed, the automatic screen formatting aligns the text according to automatic word wraparound points. This means that words that are split over the end of a line when typing are automatically joined again on the next line to allow faster text entry.

If you want to deactivate this screen formatting, you should use the paragraph format "/(". The "/" symbol stands for new line, the "(" stands for raw line, that is, line which is not to be formatted.

If you want to use this format for a whole screen, you should create this as a template first (for example, with 20 lines) in a user clipboard (Goto - User clipboard 1 - 3).

Reminder: Lines are copied with Mark F2 or a mouse double-click in the format column), then Copy and, as often as required, Insert. The user clipboard is also retained after the session (Clipboard - Save).

The following is recommended before using Cut&Paste:

• Insert the contents of the user clipboard at the cursor position with the command Insert - User clipboard

• Afterwards, paste the contents of the paste buffer into the text area
  
  

Future:

From Release 3.0, it will be directly possible via the command Insert - Clipboard to insert the Cut&Paste contents into the editor.

From Release 4.0, Cut&Paste will be supported in the new SAPscript editor and in a PC editor.