Re: [Dev-C++] Wishlist for Dev-C++

[Brenden T. <br...@rc...>]

My nemesis is the auto indent feature.  For being "smart tabs", they're 
bloody stupid (and I hope I don't offend anyone's feelings). 
 Backspacing on a blank line doesn't skip the cursor through all 
previous tab positions, and I wish it did.  Pressing tab on an empty 
line doesn't move to the previous line's indent.  Both of these things 
should be done, I believe.  Also, if I enter a closing brace ("}") on a 
single line, it'd be nice if that line was automatically moved left one 
indent (or perhaps I should say indented correctly).  I don't know if 
it's on the to do list, but smart tabs are the most annoying thing on my 
list right now.

The other thing is the left/right scrolling.  The editor is not 
agressive enough at scrolling the view window to the left when possible. 
 Too often my cursor is at the end of a long line, and all that is 
showing is one or two characters.  Please move my cursor as far to the 
right as possible (keep it in the right hand 50% of the editor window at 
least) and show me as much of that line as possible.

Also, my editor installed with selected text being black text on a black 
background, and it took me a while to figure out there was an option for 
this, and it wasn't just a hard coded bug. ;)  Sensible defaults please. :)

Peace,
B.

Esa Vuokko wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I hope this is good place to post wishlist :-)
>
>There are couple of nits that annoy me (I use dev-cpp
>just as an editor, so this all about that)
>
>* Ablity to make ctrl+tab to work as in most windows apps.
>  So that it would change between windows on single press
>  and change between more if you keep ctrl pressed and
>  press tab many times.
>* Ability to choose ctrl+f4 to close tab and alt+f4 to
>  close the program
>
>Other nitpicks:
>
>* export keyword is not highlighted, as aren't alternative
>  tokens (and,and_eq,bitand,bitor,compl,not,not_eq,or,
>  or_eq,xor,xor_eq).
>* nor are trigraph sequences recognised, but this is really
>  small thing ;-).
>
>(I am sure you will or have fixed the bug with
>certain characters beginning the line inside some classes
>and stuff, but for that crash I sent an bug report,
>it's by far most annoying problem for me atm.)
>
>
>Regards and thanks for the nice editor,
>Esa
>
>PS. CC me on replies as I am not subscribed.
>
>
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