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Aitor Santamaría

Hi,

I am new to the FPC IDE for DOS, as I am more used to that of TP/TC, and to compile manually from commandline. I must admit it has improved a lot since I list tried it, where I rejected using it due to the critical bugs which made the IDE abort quite , I can't tune up the Editor preferences as I'd like to, and I don't know which are bugs, which are not-ready features, and which are misconfiguration.

There are two things that I would like to feel on the IDE Editor, regarding selected blocks.

One is that, if a block is selected and I move the cursor off with the keyboard, the block should be automatically unselected. This is what I understood to be "Persistent Blocks" to be DISABLED. However, my Persistent Block option in Options\Environment\Editor is disabled, but the behaviour persists.

The second one is that I would like that, when a block is selected, any key replaces it, and pressing DEL removes it. I think Borland used the terminology "Overwrite blocks", or something like that, but I don't see such option in the editor.

I am using the IDE that comes with ver 1.0.4, but if you tell me that these are bugs which are fixed by 1.0.6, I'll switch :)

Aitor

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Aitor Santamaría

PS: An old bug that I can't reproduce, but which I came accross, at certain conditions, help system is corrupted, and only random characters in random colors are shown, specially after trying Ctrl+Click to get a term in help.

Aitor

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Hi, I am new to the FPC IDE for DOS, as I am more used to that of TP/TC, and to compile manually from commandline. I must admit it has improved a lot since I list tried it, where I rejected using it due to the critical bugs which made the IDE abort quite frequently at compiling. However, I can't tune up the Editor preferences as I'd like to, and I don't know which are bugs, which are not-ready features, and which are misconfiguration. There are two things that I would like to feel on the IDE Editor, regarding selected blocks. One is that, if a block is selected and I move the cursor off with the keyboard, the block should be automatically unselected. This is what I understood to be "Persistent Blocks" to be DISABLED. However, my Persistent Block option in Options\Environment\Editor is disabled, but the behaviour persists. The second one is that I would like that, when a block is selected, any key replaces it, and pressing DEL removes it. I think Borland used the terminology "Overwrite blocks", or something like that, but I don't see such option in the editor. I am using the IDE that comes with ver 1.0.4, but if you tell me that these are bugs which are fixed by 1.0.6, I'll switch :) Aitor _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

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Pierre Muller
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Aitor Santamaría wrote
PS: An old bug that I can't reproduce, but which I came accross, at certain conditions, help system is corrupted, and only random characters in random colors are shown, specially after trying Ctrl+Click to get a term in help.

This should be more stable in the 1.0.6 release.

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Aitor > Hi, > > I am new to the FPC IDE for DOS, as I am more used to that of TP/TC, and > to compile manually from commandline. I must admit it has improved a lot > since I list tried it, where I rejected using it due to the critical > bugs which made the IDE abort quite frequently at compiling. > > However, I can't tune up the Editor preferences as I'd like to, and I > don't know which are bugs, which are not-ready features, and which are > misconfiguration. > > There are two things that I would like to feel on the IDE Editor, > regarding selected blocks. > > One is that, if a block is selected and I move the cursor off with the > keyboard, the block should be automatically unselected. This is what I > understood to be "Persistent Blocks" to be DISABLED. However, my > Persistent Block option in Options\Environment\Editor is disabled, but > the behaviour persists.

I think that the problem is that this is a editor local flag (i.e. it can be changed individually for each edited file). So if you change the global settings in the Options|Environment|Editor the files open before that change still have the flag present, but if you close and reopen the file, it should work as you want.

> The second one is that I would like that, when a block is selected, any > key replaces it, and pressing DEL removes it. I think Borland used the > terminology "Overwrite blocks", or something like that, but I don't see > such option in the editor.

This is indeed not implemented...

> I am using the IDE that comes with ver 1.0.4, but if you tell me that > these are bugs which are fixed by 1.0.6, I'll switch :) > > Aitor

Thanks for your report.

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Aitor Santamaria Merino
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>>The second one is that I would like that, when a block is selected, any >>key replaces it, and pressing DEL removes it. I think Borland used the >>terminology "Overwrite blocks", or something like that, but I don't see >>such option in the editor. >> This is indeed not implemented...

Foreseeable?

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>>I am using the IDE that comes with ver 1.0.4, but if you tell me that >>these are bugs which are fixed by 1.0.6, I'll switch :) >> >>Aitor >> Thanks for your report.

Not at all...

Aitor

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