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

[Graeme]

If I put the cursor on a closing brace I would like the preview window to show me the code for the opening brace.

I would like a "find assignments" command similar to find references - it would find all the places where an assignment is made to the variable at the cursor.

[hs2]

If I put the cursor on a closing brace I would like the preview window to show me the code for the opening brace.

A more general solution would be even better:
Show all 'next' matches of 'find_matching_paren' also covering begin/end pairs.
HS2

[HairySasquatchFL]

I would love a feature to find a caller tree for a symbol. Simillar to find references, but then it would find references for all instances that use the original symbol until a root was found. This would greatly help in understanding how a symbol is used which will help understand the implications of changing it.

[jimlangrunner]

I'm still looking for the ability to put multiple vertical lines on screen. (I _really_ miss that from CodeWright, though it's been 7 years.)

[mpenacho]

More assignable keys via macros:
   There are #defines for alt-keys (A_UP, A_DOWN), shift-keys (S_TAB, S_F9), control-keys (C_DEL, C_N).
   I would really like to have combinations available, namely these:
      execute('bind-to-key mp_scroll_window_down 'event2index(C_S_DOWN));
      execute('bind-to-key mp_scroll_window_up 'event2index(C_S_UP));
      execute('bind-to-key mp_convert_bin_to_hex 'event2index(C_S_N));
      execute('bind-to-key mp_invert_hex 'event2index(C_A_S_N));
      execute('bind-to-key mp_convert_hex_to_ascii 'event2index(C_'));
      execute('bind-to-key mp_convert_ascii_to_hex 'event2index(C_S_'));
      execute('bind-to-key maybe_split_insert_line 'event2index(C_ENTER));
      execute('bind-to-key rubout 'event2index(S_BACKSPACE));

   (although C_' would probably have to be something like C_TICK)

Sort the entries in the box that pops up after a PUSH_TAG by project, putting the current project first:
   I keep several, very similar projects in my workspace, and switch between them several times a day.  Since these have many duplicate, or nearly duplicate files, when I press my 'push-tag' key (ctrl-.), sometimes as many as a dozen file locations will pop up as potential function sources.  I then have to manually find the file location in the list that corresponds to my current project.  If it sorted the list by project, putting the files from the current project first, this would save me a lot of accidental errors.

[chrisant]

More assignable keys via macros:
   There are #defines for alt-keys (A_UP, A_DOWN), shift-keys (S_TAB, S_F9), control-keys (C_DEL, C_N).
   I would really like to have combinations available, namely these:
      execute('bind-to-key mp_scroll_window_down 'event2index(C_S_DOWN));
...

I think you might be looking for the name2event() function:

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event2index(name2event("C-S-DOWN"))


[dwgriffith]

Visual Studio for C++ provide a separate buffer for each of the tools that are configured. Thus when Lint is configured as a tool and is run there is a show output from lint in the output window.

It would be nice if SlickEdit provided a similar capability. You may not need to provide a window or buffer for each tool but you could possible provide a buffer selector and optional buffer name in the tool setup dialog. That would allow 3 different lint tool setups to select a single buffer to feed into.

The result is being able to see the compile or build errors of the project and the lint errors in different buffers that can be selected.

[jc44]

I would like the "Project/Project Properties/Files/Add Tree..." selector to be multi-select capable.  On project creation I often want to be able to add 10 directories to my project from a directory that contains about 40 - it is very dull having to do them one at a time whereas being able to ctrl-click all the ones I want before hitting OK would be a lot faster.  The Project Properties/Files list has proper multi-select, as does the "Add Files..." dialogue - it is just "Add Tree..." that doesn't.

Thanks

John Cox

[guth]

How about extending file manager with the following:

* being able to go one level up with a key
* when doing an operation, e.g., copying a set of files, the dialog box popping up could help completing the path
* when having the cursor over a path, another buffer loads the file and shows its contents, and when the cursor moves the same buffer is updated with a new file's contents.

[jorick]

Right clicking brings up a context menu with Quick Search at the top.  But if the cursor is too far down the screen, the popup menu pops up with the cursor at the bottom of the menu.  It would be nice if Quick Search was duplicated at the bottom of the menu.

I have to set it up this way every time I upgrade SlickEdit, and that's getting old.

Another nice thing to have would be to duplicate a menu item so I don't have to copy and paste to add a duplicate (or close) item.

[TKasparek]

If I put the cursor on a closing brace I would like the preview window to show me the code for the opening brace.

A more general solution would be even better:
Show all 'next' matches of 'find_matching_paren' also covering begin/end pairs.
HS2

I REALLY like this idea!! I could see myself using this a lot with larger rewrites; trying to find a missed/to many braces.

[davea]

Please add F1 help integration with the current Visual Studio 2010 Help system.

I found the MSDN Help integration to be quite useful, but alas...this feature is not compatible with the new MS help system. 

[ewendt]

Is it possible to replace QT Creator with slickedit?   
I did not found that SE loads a *.pro project file. 

The advantage from QT Creator may be the knowledge about all the symbols, classes and functions in the QT Api, but I think, SE might learn this by tagging the API Header Files. 

[jwagner]

I would love to see a beautifier option for Verilog.

[jnairb]

I'd like a function that when called with the cursor on a C/C++ continue statement would jump to the beginning of the loop, and with the cursor on a C/C++ break statement would jump to the end of the loop/switch block.