Some requests for the Method Editor

Classic Servoy
1

Hi,

Just some thought on improvements of the method editor:

  • Control-Backspace to delete the first word on the left (common action for most applications)

  • Abillity to quickly (un)comment selected text by selecting text, then rightclick on it and selecting “comment code” or “uncomment code” from the popup menu

  • Add the JS Lib functions (especially the ones under “flow”) to the control-space “typeahead” feature

  • Words in the code that normally get rendered a different color (like “var” and “null” do not get their different color if you first type “vartest” and later put a space between “var” and “test”

  • If you have a line of code that is so long, that it doesn’t fit in the visible screen and you select this code with your mouse, by placing the cursor at the beginning of the text and then dragging the mouse to the right, the last two caracters of the text cannot be selected

  • A way to quickly insert I18NJ keys into your code, for example by right clicking, selecting “I18N Keys” submenu from the popup, after which a list of I18N keys is shown. when you select on, the key is inserted into your code

Just my 5 cents on the method editor…

Paul

2

Abillity to quickly (un)comment selected text by selecting text, then rightclick on it and selecting “comment code” or “uncomment code” from the popup menu

Additionally I would like to ask for a feature that lets you comment or uncomment multiple lines of code. Just select a for loo, right click, comment kind of thing
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3

The following already works:

/*
   Your code
   or comment
*/
4

I know

I’m talking selecting a group of codelines with the mouse, rightclicking them, choosing comment (or uncomment when already commented) I admit is not very high on the “needed” list but hey, I just want to make a deeply beloved program still more beautiful :)

5

What Odysseus mentions is exactly what I ment as well.

They’re just little things that improve the effectiveness of the person that is coding. Just less clicks/keypresses to achieve the same result

Paul

6

I second (or third) this request for a pair of comment/uncomment code commands.