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

[asandler]

I'd really love to see SE loading hot-fixes automatically. Practice shows that hot-fixes may come out quiet often so loading them automatically or at least notifying there's a new hot-fix would be very convenient. You can take it even further and notify when there's a new version of SE available.

Thanks.
Alex.

[chrisant]

I'd really love to see SE loading hot-fixes automatically. Practice shows that hot-fixes may come out quiet often so loading them automatically or at least notifying there's a new hot-fix would be very convenient. You can take it even further and notify when there's a new version of SE available.

That would be nice, as options, of course -- a couple example reasons why:

• Notification should be optional for privacy reasons, or if a check for updates could ever block the foreground (UI) thread.
• Auto-updates should be optional, since there may be valid reasons to postpone patching (e.g. during mission critical time windows one does not want to risk a bad auto-patch that could jeopardize the ability to meet a deadline, or users like myself may have additional steps necessary when applying patches [I have the entire SE installation under source control, it's a best practice if one is going to modify stock macros], etc).

[srouleau]

Multiple monitor support. Ability to separate a code window from the main visual slick window.

Visual Studio 2010 will have this feature:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/08/31/multi-monitor-support-vs-2010-and-net-4-series.aspx

+100 

The hack of starting 2 instances of SE just doesn't work properly for me, if I remember to do it at all.

[ehab]

Support for css


wish there is support for css like the way you have html

hoping to have one less other software installed : )

[Bhelyer]

I've always wanted the ability to switch between indentation styles / spaces tabs quickly (at the press of a button). Although, thinking about it now, there's probably a way to get SE to do that as it stands...

[Tree]

How about having breakpoints attach to the *next* debugging session used instead of the last session used?

I seem to hit this *every* time. I go carefully create a dozen or so breakpoints, then start a debugging session, and they're all gone.
Really frustrating...

[Marcel]

64-bit calculator and math functions

[asandler]

Allow buffer tabs toolbar positioned vertically.
This is useful when working with laptop computer. Modern laptops often have 9x16 height vs. width ratio. This makes vertical screen space expensive, while there is plenty of space horizontally. So, what I usually do to make things more convenient is getting rid of all bottom toolbars giving entire height of the screen to code window. Other toolbars remain in portrait mode, so no problems here.
Buffer tabs toolbar is very useful, but it cannot be placed in portrait mode. I.e. you can, but tabs inside still positioned horizontally, so placing it in portrait mode doesn't help much. You can remove it too, but it is just too useful.
I guess the right way of fixing this is to make buffer tabs toolbar to identify its mode (portrait or landscape) and place the tabs accordingly.

Thanks.
Alex.

[ingo]

- Support for editing files larger then 2 GB
- git scm support.
- a nice to have, would also, to support something like remote compile.
  Say you have a headless maschine(on VM or so) with OpenBSD, an i can edit and compile remote
  on this maschine like i have an local project.

- native 64bit version on linux. Setup a box with only 64bit, and can't use VS here

[Tree]

@ingo I had a good experience with remote compilation from windows->Sun using an ssh command for the compile step a while back. I had to set up passwordless login, but after that it worked very well.

Local project file, remote source files over samba.
Tagging was a bit slower, but compiles were much faster in that case.

[Randall Parker]

1) Copy full current File Path. MS VS has this. You can get the current file's path into the paste buffer. Handy for lots of reasons. Also, copy just the file name or just the path without file name.

2) When creating a new file have a way to grab the path of the last file you had focus on. Usually you want to add a new file in the directory you are working on and not where the project was defined. I can have a project with multiple dirs. Navigating to each dir is a pain.

3) Group file create. I want to go into a dialog where I just type in a list of files and they all get created in the same dir and with the same encoding (e.g. HTML).

4) FTP wild cards to go fishing in directories on a server. The directories can hold more files than a listing of files will return.

5) Right click on a file in project file list and choose to change its name. The name change should happen for the copy in file buffer and the copy on the disk and as a file name in the project.

[Wanderer]

Don't remember where I got this, but look at:
copyPathName()
copyFileName()
copyFileNameComplete()

See attachment.

[Randall Parker]

More suggestions:

1) After clicking on a tab for a file that tab ought to stay visible.

2) Better ways to close files. When a large number of files are open since the current focus file's tab is not visible there is no right click choose for closing files. Also, the Files | Close shows no key mapping for closing files. Also, there's no obvious way to pop up the dialog box (which I recall from previous vse versions with the Brief key mapping which I no longer use) that shows a list of files for rapid closing.

[Robster]

OK, I'll take the risk of being ridiculed: I'd really like to see Qt Designer integration. Qt Creator is nice, but it doesn't have the code analysis power of SE, and I'm just too used to SE to change now.

And while you're at it, you could integrate Qt Assistant as well! ;P

[asandler]

OK, I'll take the risk of being ridiculed: I'd really like to see Qt Designer integration. Qt Creator is nice, but it doesn't have the code analysis power of SE, and I'm just too used to SE to change now.

And while you're at it, you could integrate Qt Assistant as well! ;P

In that case why not throw in Visual Studio designer as well? I mean the component that does form designs in VS.