I really miss the ability to split the code editor window to copy and paste between code sections. I also miss the ability to have code side by side in a given project. With a large monitor, 1920 x 1200 I can easily work on three edit windows side by side and would like to take advantage of my screen real estate.
Quote from: Peter House on August 27, 2010, 06:30:21 PM
I really miss the ability to split the code editor window to copy and paste between code sections.
Me too :)
Kind regards
A response from the Firefly Master would be nice so we know if this is a
:) Great Idea,
;) Good Idea,
??? Has Some Merit,
OR
:o Is so totally boneheaded only a "Little Newbie FireFly" would ever think of it.
Hi Guys,
I have this one on my wish list too. It is something that I miss from the old CodeMax control that I used in FF2.
Regarding practical little features in editors ...
I just recently saw a preview of Enyo (HP Palm WebOS) development where keywords that where selected/highlighted resulted in that the other visible occurrences of it in the code where highlighted as well. That seemed very useful to me.
Notepad++ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/) has this feature and it is very helpful.
Notepad++ also has a feature showing the spaces as small gray dots and vertical tab lines as thin light gray lines for showing indentation.
Another, really cool feature, it whenever you move your cursor next to a parentheses or brace, the matching brace is highlighted and there is a function key to jump to the matching item.
Those editors must use Scintilla (I know that Notepad++ does). It has those highlighting features.
Notepad++ is definitely based on Scintilla.
QuoteI wonder if he's still using Scintilla or re-writing from scratch??
Why not just ask him. 8o) He's here pretty frequently although he probably have enough activity in his own forums and that would probably be the most appropriate place to address him about it.
Jose â€" are you crafting it all, or ...?
Yes, I'm using Scintilla. It's good enough for my needs.
The new editor is a personal one, not a replacement for SED. I mean that I'm implementing what I personally need for my work.
For example, it supports several languages like C, XML, HTML, resource files, etc. It also supports unicode, via UTF-8 encoding, for comments and string literals.
Tired of having to delete backup files, now you can, optionally, set an option to save them in a database. If you want to have more than a backup copy, you can set an option to save them with the date and time added. An small program allows you to delete, export or copy to the clipboard.
Print and print preview is done by converting the code to html and then using an hosted instance of the WebBrowser control.
The code is much cleaner, since there is only one global variable that holds a reference to a class.
Keywords for the different languages supported are stored in .txt files that the user can modify.
The core functionality is already implemented. Not sure yet how I will implement projects. I would like a separate tool like Lynx because I use a resolution of 800x600 and if I incorporate the projects window to the screen it leaves me little room for editing.
Each one has his own needs, and features that are life-savers to some will never be used by others.
Currently, I'm giving the highest priority to version 2 of my headers, that will allow to work with ansi or unicode transparently just by defining %UNICODE = 1 or not.