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>Is there any way to temporarily disable features of the QuickBasic 4.5
>editor?  There are a number of minor annoyances but the biggest problem
>I have is related to making subroutines.
>
>Often when writing a program I'll decide "hmm, that block of code
>would be better as a subroutine".  But when I try to put a SUB
>statement before an already-existing section of code,
>the editor takes me out of the original routine and creates a new,
>empty subroutine.
>
>(IMPORTANT:  Notice I'm **NOT** talking about developing a really new
>             subroutine from scratch, but extracting already-present
>             code to make a SUB .  Typically this would be starting from old
>             "spaghetti" code and converting it to a more structured form.)
>
>I can avoid this by saving the program as ASCII, getting out of QB,
>using a text editor to insert the "SUB ... END SUB" statements around the
>appropriate lines of code, moving the new SUB to the bottom of the
>file, then getting back into QB.  But something tells me there's got to
>be an easier way ....
>
>Thanks for any help.  Apologies if this is a dumb/RTFM question but
>I haven't been able to find anything in the docs.
>________________________________________________________________________
>Raymond W. Arritt                     |  Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
>Assistant Professor                   |  University of Kansas
>arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu             |  Lawrence, KS  66045
>Apr  1 12:29:21 timed[92]: THIS MACHINE IS A SLAVE
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>Apr  1 12:29:31 timed[92]: This machine is master
>
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You could: first decide your subroutine name and create that empty
SUB, then with the block copy, copy the part of the main code into
the empty SUB and after delete the selected block from the main.
It works, but of course you have to DEFINE SUB at the begining.
Hope it helps :-)

Gabriel