IDE - Coedit 2, update 6 released

Sat May 28 11:27:18 PDT 2016

On Saturday, 28 May 2016 at 16:23:41 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> It'd be nice if there was a pre-defined set of dark highlighter 
> attributes that could just be selected and then used 
> out-of-the-box or as a starting point. In general, manually 
> adjusting editor themes can get to be a pain, especially when 
> the color settings are mixed in with the rest of the settings.

Acceptable as an issue for the bug tracker.

> [...]
>
> Few newbie questions:
>
> - In other editors, I tend to rely very heavily on "Ctrl-Tab" 
> to switch between opened files (in most-recently-used order - 
> analogous to Alt-Tab in many desktop environments). Is there an 
> entry for that in "Options"->"Shortcuts"->"Code editor" so I 
> can set that up? I didn't spot one at a glance, but I could've 
> easily overlooked it.

By default it's Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Left|Right. You can open an 
enhancement request asking for it not to be hardcoded anymore.

>
> - Regarding "tab vs space" indents, the boolean options 
> eoSpacesToTabs, eoTabsToSpaces, and eoTabIndent seem key, but 
> I'm a little unclear on exactly how they work, and the 
> "options1"/"options2" in general don't appear to be documented 
> (understandable, given how many there are, which is nice 
> though, I like configurability. Adjusting software to fit 
> people is much better than adjusting people to fit software, 
> and "one-size-fits-all" only ever works for hats :) ).

eoTabsToSpaces: when tab is pressed insert <tabwidth> spaces 
instead of 0x9.
The others: I don't really know.

> - Mostly wishful thinking but I don't suppose there are any 
> plans for elastic tabstops, are there?

TIL. Never heard of this before. There's a column mode but it's 
only used on
the selection.

> - Not an objection really (and I'm sure this has been asked 
> before, so pardon that), but I'm curious why it's written in 
> Pascal rather than D. Lack of good-enough GUI libs for D? Any 
> plans to port to D down the road? It'd likely be easier to get 
> contributors if it were in D, but I imagine you probably 
> already figured that. Not trying to push for porting of course, 
> I'm just curious.

Because I come from this language and it's really top comfy for 
me. When I started CE I was still a complete noobie in D (and had 
0 C-ish background, even today D is the only C-style language I 
know). Also it has a very good code editor component.
Today, two years after, I think it would be possible for me to 
write it with gtkD though some important components miss: 
asynchronous process and serialization system à la Pascal (I'm 
working on both in my user library).

> - I am getting a little bit a weird behavior in a couple places 
> (This is on Debian x64, KDE4, FWIW):
>
> When I type 'm' in the editor (without Shift), I get a newline 
> instead of an 'm'. The other letters appear to work fine.

Bug report please.

> Also, in the options editor and the search/replace text box 
> (maybe other places as well?), anything I type gets doubled. 
> For example, if I try to type in a value of "20", I get "2200". 
> "if" becomes "iiff". Backspace works fine, so I can easily 
> erase the extra characters, but something seems to have gone 
> weird there.

This is probably an imcompatibility with the  SCIM (The Smart 
Common Input Method platform).
See http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=6231.0 
for the resolution.

> And the "Find" button doesn't appear to successfully find 
> things even when they are there. "Find All" works though.

There's a problem when "allow Regex" is not checked.
And another one I've already encountered once, that I cannot 
reproduce and fix (if this is this one you talk about so far the 
only way to fix is the close the file and reopen it)

> - It'd be nice if there was a way (if there isn't already?) to 
> set up Ctrl-F (or something) to automatically jump to and 
> select the text in the "Search" entry box.

Yes Ctrl+F is the default shortcut. It copies the current 
identifier to the "Find & replace" widget. Then F3 to get the 
first match.