[Lazarus] Lazarus options

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:15:38 +0100
Martin Friebe <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> just trying to keep my intentions in sync with the lazarus teams 
> expectations.
> So a couple of questions to follow up the remarks in 
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=9652
> 
> - I was planning to add an option to switch on/off the highlight all 
> feature in incremental search. Should I? or is it better to have it 
> always on? (also consider this with the option below the "===" mark
> in mind, please)

Don't add an option if no one uses it.

 
> - I also had the idea to add *options* for
>    - match bracket on *before* caret
>      curently matches  bracket after caret, which is not usefull, 
> because if you typed a closing bracket, it is *before* the caret
>      ( maybe even match both sides)

I don't see the need. Jut change it to *before*.

 
> - Add options to match unbalanced brackets (in an error color)
>   foo( string[ index );
>   is missing a ], so if either on the ")" or the "[" then they shoudl 
> match each other, but highlight in red (or as unbalanced)
>   this can help a good deal finding them in bigger terms.

Again: Why an option? This is always a nice feature.

 
> ==========
> - I do agree that on the *current* page, vincent's remark " Less
> options is better" is true.
> I was thinking about grouping the options into individual sets:
> 
> * "tabs and spaces"
>  - smart tabs
>  - tabs to spaces
>  - trim trailing spaces
>  - tab indent block
>  - auto indent ??
> * Display
>  - show special chars
>  - use syntax highlight
>  - bracket highlight
> * Hints
>  .....
> * scroll
>   - half page scroll
>   - keep caret x ??
>   - always visible caret
>   - scroll by one less
>   - scroll past end of file // line
> * mouse and drag ??
>  - drag and drop
>   - drop files
>   - right mouse moves caret
>   - double click line
>   - mouse links
> * misc
> 
> If that makes sense, I can see and work out what IMHO would go where.

ok

 
> Also is there a decision when or if the new edit options will be in 
> place? It would be nice not do to this twice.

When someone completes it.

 
> then maybe some options should could be combined? (drop down or
> radio?) scoll by one less + half page scroll  == half page  - one
> line ?

ok
 
> that is if half-page was always obeyed, and affected vertical scroll
> too?

?


Mattias