A) Documentation: I have a documentation "header" I drop into the top of every page. It includes many standard elements such as my name and company, plus a lot of page specific information that I fill in such as a description of the template, the name of the template, the date, etc..
You could always create a blank .cfm template file that has all of that and DWMX will create new files that contain your standard header... (haven't tried that but I'm sure it would be easy - it's what I've done in most other editors).
B) Comments. It is nice to be able to comment out sections of code just by highlighting and hitting a keystroke.
This is a single click operation in DWMX (using the CFML Basic tab of the Insert toolbar).
C) Sample queries that grab the ID of a recently inserted item
Hmm, is this a SQL Server specific thing? (I see @@identity mentioned a lot but have never used it).
D) A sample cfapplication tag. Just pop it in fill in the blanks.
Interesting... But for a tag that's used just a few times (in comparison to everything else), how much of a saving is it? This line:
<cfapplication clientmanagement="yes" sessionmanagement="yes" setclientcookies="yes">
was 25 key presses including up/down/left/right arrow key actions (and no mouse clicks). How many keys / clicks is it in CFS using a snippet?
If you explore them (Even in DW w/o the ability to assign hotkeys) you may wonder why you haven't been using them before. That is what I thought when I started using them.
Oh, I've used systems that provide that functionality and I have tried it once or twice back in the but just never found it useful enough that it became part of my day-to-day usage. That's why I'm curious how folks use the feature!
Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/
"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood
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