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highlight of the select variable problem
MortenMacFly:
--- Quote from: jens on October 07, 2009, 07:21:19 am ---the decision to ignore selections with less than three characters was made, not to slow down the IDE too much.
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Wasn't that configurable via editor settings or alike..?!
Jenna:
--- Quote from: MortenMacFly on October 07, 2009, 07:29:17 am ---
--- Quote from: jens on October 07, 2009, 07:21:19 am ---the decision to ignore selections with less than three characters was made, not to slow down the IDE too much.
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Wasn't that configurable via editor settings or alike..?!
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I don't think so, but it can be done easily, of course.
But such an option should have a warning, that it might slow down performance when processing large files.
mariocup:
Please do not make it configurable. To be honest if you look e.g. at the current editor settings (see attachment) there are so many settings for character encoding that user will really get confused. We should rather think about removing some settings and not make all configurable since the usability will suffer. If we have more and more settings it will come the day that we have such a confusing dialog like eclipse and user will need one day to find a setting how to configure the font size. Such things will frustrate new users. So we should keep the benefit that codeblocks is an easy to use IDE :D
BTW: Although it has nothing to do with the functionality of Code::Blocks I find it disturbing that the text of some checkbox differ in case.
e.g.
try to detect latin-2
relative filename
Highlight Colour
etc.
I would suggest to use a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence and then only lowercase.
The other thing is the inconsistency of writing words. In some dialogs (e.g. general tab we write "case-sensitive" (highlight occurences) and in code completion tab we write "case sensitive"). Other examples are for the Todo, To-do (see attachment)
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dje:
Hello!
--- Quote from: mariocup on October 07, 2009, 08:47:30 am ---Please do not make it configurable. To be honest if you look e.g. at the current editor settings (see attachment) there are so many settings for character encoding that user will really get confused. We should rather think about removing some settings and not make all configurable since the usability will suffer. If we have more and more settings it will come the day that we have such a confusing dialog like eclipse and user will need one day to find a setting how to configure the font size. Such things will frustrate new users. So we should keep the benefit that codeblocks is an easy to use IDE :D
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Another solution is to display most common/used/important settings on a panel and put on it an "Advanced" button to display all other ones showing a hidden panel or with a new dialog. That way, it is still possible to have a fine granularity in settings without loosing the work...
Dje
daniloz:
I really like Dje solutions and I would like to have the option to configure the highlight selection length (without having to recompile C::B as I just did to set it to zero :D ).
Just my 2 cents...
daniloz
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