Being ABAP developer I
often need to look up syntax of particular ABAP statement. Similarly as in discussion
here
I think that coding itself as activity in any of programming language is “state
of mind” thing and rest (like in which language is the code written or what
syntax it has) is not that important. Therefore I really like features of ABAP
IDE either in SAP GUI or in Eclipse
which helps me with syntax. Using e.g. auto-completion tool helps me to focus
on the code and not on what the syntax of any particular syntax is. Because as said
already; the syntax is not that important.
Furthermore often I need
to look up some more documentation about the ABAP statements. For this I use
couple of t-codes that help me all the time:
ABAPDOCU Display ABAP Documentation - display
popup called “ABAP Keyword Documentation” where I can review documentation from
different standpoints like ABAP Reference, ABAP − Release-Specific Changes, ABAP
Programming Guidelines, ABAP Glossary, ABAP Index, ABAP Examples, ABAP syntax
diagrams, etc.
ABAPHELP Search ABAP Documentation – display small
popup with search term field where it is possible to enter any ABAP keyword and
to get an documentation for
ABAP_DOCU_SHOW Call
ABAP Keyword Documentation – same as ABAPHELP
