OK, I'll accept that 8^). I usually use macros to accomplish the same thing. Unfortunately, Studio (I haven't tried DWMX, so I can't speak to it) doesn't provide support for macros. You know... I'm off to the wish list to submit that as a feature request.
-- Mosh Teitelbaum evoch, LLC Tel: (301) 625-9191 Fax: (301) 933-3651 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Miller [mailto:josh@;joshuasmiller.com] > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:59 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Anybody want to start a petition for CF Studio! > > > Not directly related to CF-Programming, but I recently wrote a long > configuration file for Jedit that I needed the ability to copy a column > of text and paste it into a column of text like: > > ReplaceNoCase~~ReplaceNoCase("string","substring1","substring2","ALL"); > > Where I wrote all the left column attributes (to the left of ~~), then > copied them using Jedit's column select feature and pasted the text to > the right of the first column - thus making my work that much faster. > > I know that's not a typical day in the life of a CF-Developer, but it > sure is a handy feature sometimes. > > Joshua Miller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mosh Teitelbaum [mailto:mosh.teitelbaum@;evoch.com] > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:16 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Anybody want to start a petition for CF Studio! > > > Novak wrote: > > > > As long as we're using "petty" reasons I'll add my 2 cents. I > > > > can't stand the fact that an "advanced" editor like DWMX doesn't > > > > allow me to mark a COLUMN of text. Cheaper editors like UltraEdit > > > > > allow this and have done so for many, may versions. > > Mosh Teitelbaum wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity... why would you need to be able to block out > columnar > > > text for CF coding? I can understand for languages like ASM or > > > Fortran where columnar coding is syntactical or customary, but CF? > > Novak wrote: > > The real question is... why not? :-) Why should a standard freeware > > or shareware text editor have this feature but a product as high > > priced as DWMX not have it? > > Just a guess (based my own, personal experience); because the > shareware/freeware versions are either intended to be all purpose, all > language programming IDEs or because they will throw in every feature > they can think of in the hopes that just one more person will find that > feature interesting/useful and therefore buy the product. CF Studio and > DWMX are (I would venture to guess) not intended for programming > languages other than Cold Fusion and CF-related languages (HTML, XML, > JS, CSS, etc.). It is specialized for its core set of languages. > > > Many of the projects I work on involve editing more than just .cfm > > files. But even with .cfm files there are several times when I'm in > > code view and want to remove a column of text or insert a column of > > text. > > So, I'm not trying to be annoying here, I'm just generally curious; what > possible reason could you have that, in a Cold Fusion application (which > is generally indented, not columnar), you need to cut & paste columns. > Unless you're using CF to generate ASM code 8^). > > -- > Mosh Teitelbaum > evoch, LLC > Tel: (301) 625-9191 > Fax: (301) 933-3651 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
