1. Editor wish list...
David,
How about the editor featuring:
1. Folding procedures. They fold down to one line, I suppose that you
just have to scan through for the end procedure and miss out displaying
the lines between the two, or give each line a tag as to if it should be
displayed or not.
2. A see through/transparent mouse cursor.
3. Backspace works like delete to delete a selected block.
4. Control left doesn't work properly when the cursor is in white space
at the end of a line, the cursor goes to the line above.
Keep upi the good work,
Matt Sephton
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u5ms at csc.liv.ac.uk
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2. Re: Editor wish list...
Thanks for the input.
> 1. Folding procedures. They fold down to one line, I suppose that you
> just have to scan through for the end procedure and miss out displaying
> the lines between the two, or give each line a tag as to if it should be
> displayed or not.
I've toyed with the idea, but I'm not sure that the benefits outweigh the
amount of added work to implement it. It would also require creating a new
control, since I want to keep the MLE generic enough for "regular"
applications calling the GUI.
You have a (sort of) similar feature with the list of procedure/function
names that pop up with the F2 key.
All the same, I'll keep it on my list of things to think about.
> 2. A see through/transparent mouse cursor.
The mouse cursor should already be transparent. That is, when you move the
mouse cursor over a character, the mouse cursor block becomes the inverse of
the background color, but you can still see the character "behind" the
cursor.
Am I mis-understanding this?
> 3. Backspace works like delete to delete a selected block.
That's the way that I initially coded it, but I changed it to be consistant
with the MS-DOS editor. I agree with you - that's the way it should work.
I'll change it back.
> 4. Control left doesn't work properly when the cursor is in white space
> at the end of a line, the cursor goes to the line above.
It's a bug that is corrected in the next (unpublished) release.
> Keep up the good work,
Thanks. Speaking of "up", please do *not* press the up or down arrows in the
current release of the editor if you are on an SLE (Single Line Edit), or
Bad Things will happen (in Euphoria, Bad Things almost always are program
crashes). I've corrected the bug in the next (unpublished) release.
Thanks again!
-- David Cuny
