Hi,

I've just installed version 4 and have found these suggestions. I hope they can be included in the next release.

Suggestions
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- it would be really really useful to have constants displayed in the globals tab too or even in their own tab.

- it would be nice to be able to re-execute code after changing it or a variable on the fly in a debugging session i.e. be able to set the next the executable statement on the fly.

- would be good to have a skip command in the debugger to ignore a command.

- when selecting a variable name, it would be useful to have a setting to control whether the leading $ is selected as well.

- would be good to have a select whole words option (like Word), such that if you double-click to select a word then keep dragging the cursor, whole words continue to be selected rather than individual characters.

- would be more useful to keep the find box open after the find rather than closing it.

- if a line wraps to the following line in the editor window, selecting it only selects part of it (i.e. one physical line at a time). Would be better to have the whole logical line selected rather than just a physical line.

- it would be good to be able to highlight whole lines using one click in the left margin when the gutter is off (having to click and drag in the margin to do this is a real pain). The cursor should also change to point to the right when the mouse is over the margin.

- it would be good to be able to select logical lines instead of/as well as selecting physical lines e.g. if a code line spans 3 lines, if you select the first line, all 3 physical lines should be selected, not just the first one.

- it would be good if the ftp client in phpEd was able to use more than one connection at a time.

- in 'Find in Files', it would be useful to have the location column in the log tab showing the whole path to the file (only from the project's root directory, though), rather than just the file name.

Debbie

Thanks for your suggestions.
Please see my comments below.


See tools->settings->editor settings, Extended select
When checked it selects whole words when keep dragging the cursor by mouse.


Hmmm I can hardly imagine how it would be possible. Selection starts from some point and extends to the cursor position. Suppose you started from the line beginning and then moved cursor (either by mouse or by keys) down. When cursor is in a wrapped extent, selection should have only this extend and above, not whole the line.


if you mean "select whole lines", it's not that hard. Just move cursor using End, Home, PgUp, PgDn, Up, Down, whatsoever else while shift is pressed.



what's about "Mark line" command? By default it runs by Ctrl-K, M shortcut.


It uses more than one connection at a time. For example you can navigate ftp account in the Explorer window and publish some files to it, simultaneously.



Right click and check "show full path".

Hi,



Brilliant, thank you.



Again, brilliant, thank you.





I think the first two could be solved by including the third feature. Every text editor I've used, except notepad, has this basic feature, so I can't understand why it hasn't yet been included in phpEd.

If, when the gutter is off, you hover the mouse over the margin, the pointer should switch to point to the right (i.e. a north-east pointing arrow) and when you click on a line the whole logical line is selected.

So, maybe if you assign the Mark Line command to a click in the left margin as well, that should do the job and it would be so much more usable.

Debbie