[Lazarus] Bug in cody. Exploding a hanging with block.

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:49:32 +0300
ListMember <listmember at letterboxes.org> wrote:

>[...]
> 1) Could there be an option so that cody leaves (within the source 
> itself) a commented-out copy of the block it has altered.

Feel free to send a patch for that.

 
> This is needed for 2 reasons.
> 
> a) I have noticed that cody saves a copy of the altered file to disk 
> immediately.

Huh? Not that I know.


>[...]
> b) I also noticed that cody works within the active compiler switches 
> ($IFDEF stuff). While this is good, it also means it leaves out the code 
> in the '$ELSE' part. This may/will become problematic when the '$ELSE' 
> becomes active but there's no way to 'explode with' for it.

Changing the $ELSE part is dangerous, because the context is wrong.
The parser does not parse structures within $ELSE parts (e.g. with).
It should warn the user to check carefully those parts.

 
> 2) It would be immensely more useful if it could do its thing on 
> unit-wide, class-wide and function/procedure-wide.
> 
> Where can I write these requests so that they don't get forgotten?

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas

Mattias