What features and/or improvements would you like to see in SlickEdit?

[drac]

- STL types support in debugger
- CDB debugger support for Visual Studio
- ditch the Motif UI library to something more modern -> Qt. This would make MAC support easier and overall platform integration.
Slickedit for Windows looks OLD.

[KenM]

External SE windows, say on another monitor, with tabs and other docked windows.

Now, if I drag a window (say, the Preview window) off the main SE window, it can't have other windows docked or tabbed.

I use multiple monitors and I'd like to have a window on my main monitor with multiple tabs and docked windows, and another window on the other monitor, also with multiple tabs and docked windows.

Thanks,
Ken

[asandler]

- ditch the Motif UI library to something more modern -> Qt. This would make MAC support easier and overall platform integration.
Slickedit for Windows looks OLD.

+1
Indeed it looks old on Windows.
It looks even older on Linux. I tried it on Ubuntu 9.04. Lots of small things seems to be broken. Icons on toolbars that expected to have transparent background have black background. Arrow in combo box control appear as a black box. List of fonts is a weird mixture of old X style names (all low caps) and new names (DejaVu Sans Mono). When over SE's window, mouse cursor seems to be from 80's, totally ignoring mouse theme. Etc.
I didn't test SE on other distributions, so I can't tell if this is because of Ubuntu or because of SE uses oldish Motif library. Yet I am sure that there are things that SE can do to make it look better.

[chucky666]

Automatic generation (and actualization) of function/member (doxygen compatible) C/C++ comments. Should parse code and fill in:
function parameters - distinguish input and output variables, prepending out (or something user defined) to variable name, even if they are in function parameters.
used global(or instance) variables (also distinguish which were used for read and write) and global or external functions (optional).
errors - in case of throws / (return enums?).
function name, remarks, todos, comments, notes and so on - keywords, programmer can append own text.
Would be nice if format of comments could be specified as serie of tags (ie like printf).
Also add/modify file header - one template for all files in project, specifying Name, email, license, os, version, last revision, desription, notes, and so on.

Main purpose of this is to ease commenting code - programmer just fill in descriptions and that is. Another use is for better readability of uncommented legacy code.

[SlimHeilpern]

If native Mac support is not in the cards at this time, PLEASE at least fix Brief-style copy/paste when running under a recent version of X11. I'm running X11 2.3.3.2 and am not able to down-rev it and copy/paste in either direction does not behave correctly, regardless of the X11 settings. I now have to use JEdit as an intermediate copy/paste buffer, which is pretty silly and extremely annoying.

Thanks,

- Slim.





 

[chucky666]

one more thing, preview should display only hints from included files. When large projects are tagged, reading many hints are confusing.
Thanks in advance.

[jemuillot]

SlickEdit Wastes too much space for sub-windows.

For example:

* The Tab is too big for switching Reference/Build/Search/...
* And the Title-bar for above is not necessary
* The message bar at the bottom of SlickEdit should be allowed to be not shown, because the information is not important to everybody, and it does take a lot GUI space.

[mitcheljh]

Something that would be very nice, would be Horizontal Dynamic Surround for certain languages like HTML.
How many times do you run into a situation like this...  you have a line which contains the following...
This is a html line in which the work, emphasized need to be tagged.
So, now you want to surround the word 'emphasized' with the tags.

What we do now, is add the tags in front of the word, so our sentence above now becomes...
>This is a html line in which the work, emphasized need to be tagged.
If you're like me, you then select and drag the desired word or phrase (emphasized) between the tags.
But, it would be really great if a 'horizontal Dynamic Surround' would take effect when ever you added inline tags, so then you could just use your right arrow to include the word/phrase inside the newly added tag.

[jimlangrunner]

Tagging - not that I don't get your point (I do, and I like it) - but you can save a few keystrokes (perhaps) by highlighting what you want, then right-click, Surround Selection With from the context menu, select emphasis.  I found myself doing this so much (creating links) that I bound a recorded macro to a key combo to do just this.  (I still like the arrow-keys though - it could be even faster)

Jim.

[MartyL]

mitcheljh,

There is some existing functionality that would really help with what you're doing. It's called complete-next. In the default SlickEdit bindings, it's Ctrl+Shift+Period. You'll also want complete-more, which defaults to Ctrl+Shift+Space.

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This is a html line in which the work, emphasized need to be tagged.
As you normally would, put your cursor before emphasized and type your tag.

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This is a html line in which the work, <em></em>emphasized need to be tagged.
Place your cursor in the middle of the tags and do complete-next. At this point, it's going to highlight the "em" in , not really what you want. So do complete-next again, and you should see this:

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This is a html line in which the work, <em>emphasized</em>emphasized need to be tagged.
But now you have two emphasized texts. Not really what you want. At this point you could use cut or "delete-selection" to clear the second emphasized.

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This is a html line in which the work, <em>emphasized</em> need to be tagged.
On to making it work for phrases. Let's say that you wanted "emphasized need to be" as the phrase you wanted to wrap. Get your line back to this point:

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This is a html line in which the work, <em></em>emphasized need to be tagged.
Place your cursor between the tags as you did before and complete-next twice to highlight emphasized. From this point, you can highlight additional words with complete-more. Since you want three more words, press complete-more (Ctrl+Shift+Space) three times.

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This is a html line in which the work, <em>emphasized need to be</em>emphasized need to be tagged.
Once again, do a cut or a delete-selection (no default key) to clear the leftover words.

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This is a html line in which the work, <em>emphasized need to be</em> tagged.
It sounds like a lot of work, but in practice it's usually faster and easier than dragging your phrase into the tags. Once you get used to it, it can be applied to all sorts of code editing.

[skywise]

Came across a situation this evening -

I went through and instituted a change across a half dozen files.  Then I did about 2 other changes over the next 2 hours over a dozen other files.  Then I reverted the first change... or so I thought...

Now I've got a bug in my code and I can't figure out which files I've corrected/changed.  Now, backup History helped a LOT with this but it occurred to me that it'd be a nice option if I could specify a "show files I've changed within the last X amount of time" for my project and have them show up in a backup history-like window.

[Graeme]

Now I've got a bug in my code and I can't figure out which files I've corrected/changed.  Now, backup History helped a LOT with this but it occurred to me that it'd be a nice option if I could specify a "show files I've changed within the last X amount of time" for my project and have them show up in a backup history-like window.

I'd like to second the request for this.  If you keep backup files in a separate folder for each project (I do), you can look at the time and date of the vsdelta files to see which ones are most recently changed but it'd be nice if slick presented a list and automatically generated a diff of them according to a selected date/time instead of manually having to select a particular backup version to diff.  I guess some revision control tools might do this but it's not always available or what you want.

Also I'd like to be able to jump from a location in the diff viewer to the corresponding location in the main file in the editor and vice versa.

Graeme

[rod_gomz]

Better sort on search references. The way I used Slickedit is not by project or workspace, since I create a dummy/default one. So I just index all the code and I find my away around regardless of project. Except that when I search for references I get two columns on the symbol list and I have to hunt in that mega list when I have indexed the world, make it more granular, fine grain. I don't have time to think about how to slickedize the projects created in a non-slick world.

[rod_gomz]

Maven support, i.e. read project, compile, debug.

[cattlesquat]

Not being able to "beautify" an HTML file with embedded PHP is killing me. Seems like it wouldn't be hard to do?

That, and parsing my PHP syntax so I that I can tell if I'm missing a semicolon without having to try to launch the browser would be fantastic for web development.

Brian Reynolds
Zynga