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Lehner Franz
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 Posted - Jun 17 2010 : 4:22:27 PM
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Hi
I am VERY happy with Visual Assist and i can not imagine how to work without it.
But a time ago, i have seen a very nice tool (slick edit gadget)
it has an ident guide
Indentation guide - Draws a vertical bar in the editor indicating the indentation level of the current line.
Yes, you can install Visual Assist and Slickedit for this, but both in combination result in a kind of Performance Fiasko.
Maybe this is a cool thing for an upcomming Version ?
http://www.slickedit.com/products/slickedit-gadgets
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 1:44:24 PM
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Out of interest how do you find this marker at the indentation level helpful?
Thinking about my own coding, I am not sure how it would actually help me. |
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Lehner Franz
New Member
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Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 3:55:45 PM
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I agree, as "it is not usual". It depends what you are doing.
If you code in c++ in small functions or so, where everything is abstracted, yes, then it is a clear "no need"
But in Real world, specially in fixing big projects, complex algos, working with tab==space=2, if() complexity down to 10 levels, -> then it gets really Crazy in finding where the "{" and the matching "}" is.
{} helps, but it is very hard to see.
Also the Coding style does affect this.
consider
if (whatever) {
}
else {
}
or
if (whatever)
{
}
else
{
}
so this ident guide is more like a "where is the end of this "{"" help to see it in 0.1 sec specially when this {} combination is > 40 lines and you have to scroll down.
Actually i am usually parking the mouse cursor on it and scrolling down with the wheel to find the matching end.
So the ident guide is very helpful, as it automatically parks a "ruler" on this position and i can better scroll down.
So i see this as a basic enhancement, but maybe there are better ideas for this ... who knows
But this is very useful.
Notepad++ has a simelar idea behind -- i attached an image .. maybe this is a useful way
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
18943 Posts |
Posted - Jun 21 2010 : 2:09:37 PM
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A very clear explanation of why this would help, thank you  The picture of Notepad+ in action also helps. I have put in a feature request to see what our developers make of this:
case=46223 |
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{} Matching Ruler
