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

[greggman]

Live HTML / CSS preview with color editors etc like "coda 2"

[Clark]

We definitely plan to improve our Unicode support. Column selections need to support proportional fonts. Unfortunately this will cause slow performance but most of the time it doesn't matter.

Other features like vertical lines and wordwrap margins are not possible to do in a perfectly useful way unless you're using a subset of Unicode characters which are all the same width.

[smartin]

Remote projects. Most of the bits are in place, but it will take a lot of work to get it running properly. It requires a change in access paradigm. I would suggest something like:

1.- All OS commands are dispatched via a command line: cmd (local/win32), bash/ash/sh/tsh/tcsh/etc (local/*nix), ssh/telnet(remote)

2.- All file commands are dispatched via a file connection: native for local connections, ftp/sftp/scp for remote connections.

The rest of the functionality kind of just works on top of that. Simple .

[greggman]

Now that there are 2 dialogs so complicated as to need a search function (the "Options" and "formatting" dialogs) maybe the search in both of them should search globally across all dialogs? 

The 2 dialogs with separate searchs kind of defeats the point of 'search' which was added because finding a setting in Slickedit's amazing number of settings was hard. But now that a large percentage of features are in a different dialog 'search' is effectively broken since there's no way to know which dialog I should be searching.

[JeffB]

I reported this in the Beta forum, but didn't receive any responses...I guess it probably belongs here anyway...

Most dialogs (such as the find dialog) pop up in the middle of my VS window, which is good.  I use VNC with a wide resolution split across two monitors.  Dialog boxes such as the "Can't save config", "Do you still want to exit" and DiffZilla's "No more diffs, do you want to close the file now" always pop up in the center of my desktop (splitting the monitors) rather than the center of the VS window.  I'd prefer that all dialogs pop-up  in the center of the VS window if possible.

Thanks,
Jeff

[Bamsen]

Native support for Forth language

[Silas Tomkyn Combermache]

Support for fossil source code control.

[Silas Tomkyn Combermache]

The settings dialog does not play nice with the taskbar in windows seven. I have to drag the taskbar off the bottom to press the command buttons at the bottom because this dialog is covered by the taskbar at the bottom and it cannot be dragged. This is the latest version, seventeen (same problem with sixteen). Also, this dialog is not resizeable so there is no zoom button which is the usual fix for this sort of problem. Note that I set fonts to large in windows.

[Graeme]

The settings dialog does not play nice with the taskbar in windows seven. I have to drag the taskbar off the bottom to press the command buttons at the bottom because this dialog is covered by the taskbar at the bottom and it cannot be dragged. This is the latest version, seventeen (same problem with sixteen). Also, this dialog is not resizeable so there is no zoom button which is the usual fix for this sort of problem. Note that I set fonts to large in windows.

Do you mean the the "options" dialog that you get by selecting "options" on the Tools menu?  I have Win7 64 bit and have no problems dragging the options dialog or any other dialog in either V16 or V17.  Most likely no or very few other people have had this problem or it would have been reported by now.  Have you tried pressing Alt+Space to get the System menu, then 'M' to move the window?  On my system, the options dialog remembers both its position and size.  Do you have any other dialogs that can't be dragged?  I haven't tried large fonts  - maybe you could temporarily try smaller fonts.  Do you have any desktop manager or windows manager running  - they're buggy in my experience and can do weird things.

I have the Windows taskbar at the left side of my monitor and quite often I get dialogs from a variety of applications that are partially hidden by the vertical taskbar because they align their left edge with the left of the monitor instead of the right edge of the taskbar.  I don't know whether this is Windows or the application at fault.

BTW  - your question would be better in the main SlickEdit forum as it's really a problem report rather than an improvement request - but I guess you don't realise that

[chrisant]

I have the Windows taskbar at the left side of my monitor and quite often I get dialogs from a variety of applications that are partially hidden by the vertical taskbar because they align their left edge with the left of the monitor instead of the right edge of the taskbar.  I don't know whether this is Windows or the application at fault.

(FWIW, when that happens it's the app at fault.  It's missing a call to get the workspace area.)

[cbenson]

Better support for linux remote gdb use with dynamically loaded libraries.  Right now, if you start a session with breakpoints set in a .so that has not been loaded, it disables the breakpoints and causes gdbserver to exit.  You then have to restart the session.  It would be very nice to use the pending breakpoint feature of gdb instead.

[pmwhite]

Support for Vim's "gq" command, at least in Vim emulation.  I use "gqip" all the time to wrap text, whereas in SE that ignores the first two letters, enters insert mode, and types a "p". :-)

[Graeme]

I have the following suggestions for the files toolbar.  I've been hacking the code in tbfilelist.e to do some of these myself.

• Single click to open a buffer, ctrl+click to select instead of single click.
• I have the files toolbar docked at the right of the mdi window and always visible with only the name column showing and minimum width. On the toolbar, instead of squishing up the filter edit box to nothing but still showing the save/ close buttons etc (which I don't need), I would prefer that the filter box was last to "disappear"
• Don't have any icons appearing in the name column as they tend to be all the same for me and just waste space.
• Add "show folder in the open toolbar" to the right click menu; also "copy path" and "explore folder"
• Last but not least - when the filenames are sorted by path, have an option for showing the name of each folder as an entry itself in the list in the names column, and colored orange so that I can see the name of the folder that the following files in the list belong to without the path column being visible

[JeffB]

I 2nd all of Graeme's suggestions, except #1...but that'd be an option, right

I wonder why the "Files" tool windows has to contain the "Buffers", "Projects" and "Workspace" tabs.  It seems more flexible to have three different/separate windows for "Buffers", "Project" and "Workspace".  I use "Buffers" to select which file to view in the editors.  I rarely if ever want that window to go away, and I'd like it to occupy as little  horizontal space as possible.

Jeff

[Johnco3]

I just thought of a some simple improvements that would make the editor so much more productive (for me at least) - Given that SlickEdit knows when we are typing comments, why not auto-correct with the red wavy lines like Microsoft Word does.  Simple things like 'teh' to 'the' corrections etc. could also be transposed in real time.  This would be a real time saver.  So far it looks like the only similar feature in SlickEdit is the detection of repeated words, but even that is a manual process after the fact. 
Also taking Microsoft word as a sort of template model, when spell checking double clicking on the selected word replaces it, in SlickEdit, unfortunately one has to select the 'Change' button.  This requires a few extra key clicks while going through a lot of spelling errors in Java or Doxygen comments.

John