Keyword menu

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LGR
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Keyword menu

#1 Post by LGR » 10 Feb 2005 23:53

As if you need any more ideas....

One thing that would be useful for Pascal, in particular, but also other languages, is a hotkey-driven keyword menu popup in the IDE window. It would work something like: When the cursor is in the code editing window, pressing the Ctl (or Alt or other) key causes a window to pop up. The window would be a menu of common keywords (such as BEGIN, END, PROCEDURE, FUNCTION, FOR, DO, etc.). Clicking on the word causes it to drop into the code window. Similarly, a key (maybe \) can be redefined in the context of the code editing window to be ':='.

This would eleminate the "wordiness" of Pascal, and speed up entry. Maybe even have '{' and '}' come up as BEGIN and END respectively, for people used to C. :?:

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Re: Keyword menu

#2 Post by zristic » 11 Feb 2005 07:53

We have implemented the AutoComplete feature. It is invoked by pressing CTRL+J after a short keyword is typed in. It is fully customizable and you can make a template for whatever you want. Try with typing "proc" and then press CTRL+J. See Tools->Options->Auto complete for more info.

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