Agreed--I couldn’t do without TextPad.

Two other features I find indispensable are its bracket-matching and Compare Files.

Bob

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of dingo
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 7:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Preview for afl file-window

 

One of the features I use in Textpad to locate some code is the "Find in Files":

 

If I'm looking for a piece of code I can usually remember a small snippet and using the above I type that in and then specifiy a folder to search in. Textpad will then examine each file and look for that exact snippet and then list the line in each file that contains the snippet.  Once finished listing I can then double click that line and it will load the entire file into another window and postion the code to the line in question.  As my memory fades into the sunset I find myself using it more frequently.

 

d

 


From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Landry
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 7:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Preview for afl file-window

Hello Herman  - Several of us in the Houston community use Textpad editor (we got into this mode in using another product, - TRADE with FastTrack) to open/close multiple files.  It has a nice feature that it displays the opened files tree, with text shading to indicate what's been changed, saved etc.

 

For example if I want to open multiple files I can select these 10 files as I would in Windows mode by holding the shift key while selecting.  All files are opened  with the first one in display.  It's now easy to toggle from one window to the other to bring the focus to the file I want displayed.  It has what I'll call syntax color coding that can be customized.  It has a full function Search - find, find in files, find and replace, find next, find previous etc.  

 

When the forum was kicking around ideas about the editor I suggested that Tomasz add this kind of function  for the AB editor. Of course it would be preferable to have that function in AB, because what I miss sorely by using TextPad is the precompiler and syntax checker.  Tomasz did enhance the AB editors search/replace function and as he pointed out you can open multiple instances of the editor and float them around the screen if you have enough real estate.

I think the problem of finding the correct file by sorting out the names/version in each opened editor window is one of the challenges. Maybe having a tab

strip showing opened file (something available in TextPad also.

 

Oh and I forgot to mention the ability to turn on/off line numbering

 

Bottom line - I'd like to have most of the features of Textpad but not at the expense of delaying other AB features, like enhancements to the portfolio program.

 

We should put this in the suggestion area as a help to Tomasz

 

Best regards

JOE  

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Herman

To: AmiBroker YahooGroups

Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:43 AM

Subject: [amibroker] Preview for afl file-window

 

Hello,

Would anyone know how to add a preview window to the file-window for the afl formula editor?

This relates recent edits. During development I writes lots of small pieces of code to test various ideas and I save many for later reference.

The problem is that even though I try to give them meaningful names I have a very difficult time to find and retrieve code fragments that I know I wrote but for which I don't know in which file they resides. This means i have to open up 10-20 recent files to find a particular piece of code I need. If i could see a preview of the file when I select it in the File menu I would be able to see immediately whether i have the right file or not without actually having to open/close the file each time.

This is not a problem for historical work as I collect all code in InfoSelect, however i only do that about once a week.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

herman

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