Re: OpenEuphoria Visual Studio (EuGtk)
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Sep 17, 2012
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One thing I wish I saw in most of my programs is dynamic automatic short-cut-key assignment. When ever I repeat a series of actions in the same order I would like to see a little short cut baloon popup telling me, hey you can do what you just did now with 'Cntrl+R'. So, whereas now, I may use several repeated pull-down menu actions to say re-encode some audio file, it could just give me a hot-key when it sees me doing something twice in a row. This means recording the events and seeing the longest repeating string and leaving all or some letters for dynamic short-cuts.
Sounds like proactive macro recording.
Another one is edit a variable name at its declaration and the editor could modify all instances in the same scope and only in the same scope.
Yes, many IDEs do this as part of their refactoring suite of tools. It's very useful. Also handy is to be able to highlight a block of code and then pull it out as a new routine.
Another is Editor assistance for coding standards: Let the editor indent the stuff for you. Let the coder just think about the stuff between the whitespace.
This is also a common IDE feature. Of course, you have to make it configurable to satisfy everyone on either side of that holy war.
These ideas are public domain and not patentable because I published them here, right?
Heh. Probably covered by prior art.
Matt
