On 6/7/07, Atte André Jensen
I have two minor requests for the mini:
1) Make the char position avaliable somewhere,
Agreed! That would be very usefull. Friendly reminder; there is still a bug that makes the character that's supposedly offensive increment in the error report after re-trying to run the same code which already got a error (for example because you're stuborn, drunk or suspect you hit the wrong hotkey first time'round). For bonus points; highlight the offending character when code fails to run.
2) keyboard shortcuts for switching between tabs in the editor.
Would be very usefull indeed. Helpfull note for Mac native developers; in Windows the standard way of doing this is "Ctrl + Tab" to cycle forward and the same plus shift to cycle back Also; something I thought of myself a while ago. I frequently have the situation where I type things "from the inside towards the outside" with regard to brackets. I might write a inner loop first, then add another around it or write some statement to later place this inside of the brackets of a function-call. What I think might be a nice time-saver would be highlighting some bit if text,then hitting "[", "(" or "{" and making the mini enclose that bit of text in that kind of bracket. This might need some thought/debate because it's definately non-standard. My resoning is that the moment when you need this are exactly the moment where you are mentally jugeling a relatively large amount of things and anything that breaks the flow of thought at that point is likely to lead to mistakes. Kas.