don't know if you have seen the visual c# editor(probably a visual studio .net phenomena)? It looks like it has a really nice feuture which seems to be called method folding. I've seen this in an editor called Vim before but not as great looking as vsc#. Anyway, it works as this:
Each black of code, { ... }, is possible to collapse into one single line and your code will look somewhat like windows explorer, eg. you get a little [+] or [-] sign infront of each line that contains a {.
You'll gain alot on this since you get a fast overview of your code.
I would really really really like to see this feuture in textpad...
This is real popular in the Lotus Notes arena. The +/- are called twisties.
I could see this at the method and the class level. example....
- class A
{
___+ void A()
___- void A(int p1, int p2, int p3)
___{ body text
___}
___+ int method1 (String s1)
}
+ class B (blah blah)
+ class Listener (blah blah)
I don't see much use in adding all of these bells and whistles to a text editor. It's NOT a full-fledged IDE, and shouldn't be expected to include all the features of one.
Also, consider this:
I've worked with about a half-dozen Java IDE's:
Visual Cafe, (2 different versions,)
Allaire Kawa
Sun Forte
Borland JBuilder
IBM Visual Age
And you know what? With the exception of Kawa, (which is no loger available -- Dag!) every damn one of these applications crashed. They all crashed, and most of them fairly often. By comparison, TextPad has never crashed. Not once.
As a text editor, TextPad is never ever sick at sea. I'd rather have that than some inconsequential bell or whistle.
Did you try Netbeans? I've never seen it crash so I'm just wondering.
I agree with your point on TP being stable, but I would love to see
folding and italics/bold, without giving away TP's stabilty.
Garrett wrote:And you know what? With the exception of Kawa, (which is no loger available -- Dag!) every damn one of these applications crashed. They all crashed, and most of them fairly often. By comparison, TextPad has never crashed. Not once.
