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Vectrex
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Australia
11 Posts

Posted - Feb 11 2005 : 10:26:05 AM

I'd love it if you could add a cycle order to templates so you can quickly jump to the relevant bits and fill them out. You could define this yourself by adding a number after the -? characters

eg..

ifel:
if (-?) //<- default as it is now
{
	-?[2] //<- user defined cycle jump points
}
else
{
	-?[3]
}
-?[4] //<- the 'exit' point so you can keep coding without messing with cursor keys

shift+enter or alt+n might be a good one for this.
What do you think? There's a similar idea in this great speech recognition addon for VC
http://gregstrong.com/voice/demo.html <- watch the video, it's very cool

btw the tab key in the template window adds spaces and deletes existing tabs.

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Edited by - Vectrex on Feb 11 2005 10:31:37 AM

feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
18939 Posts

Posted - Feb 13 2005 : 5:23:16 PM

whole tomato are currently working on revamping the template editor, and hopefully the whole template system. i will pass this idea on since this is the second time in a short space of time that it has come up and see what they think of it.

for now, how about introducing a unique string, eg "^^^^" into your templates and finding for this. the advantage is that F3 will jump you to the next item to replace, and will highlight it so simply typing will replace it.

i will have to watch the speech recognition demo, but given how noisy the office i work in tends to be this is unlikely to be practical for me.

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support
Whole Tomato Software

5566 Posts

Posted - Feb 14 2005 : 3:20:15 PM

The "cycle order" you describe is part of snippets in VS2005. We will not add the feature to older IDEs, at least we suspect we will not.

Our next rev of templates will let you name input fields. This will help more than the current $1, $2 labels.