From kdevelop-bugs  Wed Jan 31 18:15:34 2007
From: joe blais <joe.blais () peptideinstruments ! com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:15:34 +0000
To: kdevelop-bugs
Subject: [Bug 140967] New: WISH - simple keyboard macro (like old Borland)
Message-Id: <20070131191531.140967.joe.blais () peptideinstruments ! com>
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           Summary: WISH - simple keyboard macro (like old Borland)
           Product: kdevelop
           Version: 3.3.5
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdevelop-bugs kdevelop org
        ReportedBy: joe.blais peptideinstruments com


Version:           3.3.5 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
Compiler:          gnu  
OS:                Linux

There doesn't seem to be a simple keyboard macro feature.  There are script things and search/replace with scripts, but all that stuff doesn't make things faster for the developer.  Borland had a good one, mickrozoft went overboard and it's slow --
-- Start recorder with a key sequence like <ctrl><shft><R>   (or something like that..).
-- Type out the what you need, including arrow positions, inserts, deletes, all those keys - and you see it happening on the screen as you go. just like normal typing.
-- End the recorder with a key sequence like <ctrl><shft><R> ( or E - whatever)
-- Play the recording with a keysequence like <ctrl><shft><P>
-- Play again, and again, and again...

This is great for doing repetative actions like taking a list of member variables and initializing them in a constructor, or greating a bunch of buttons on a screen, or setting up a bunch of events..  

It saves DAYS of development time.....  Many a time, I have based my choice of development IDE --SOLELY-- on the capability of the keyboard macro!!!

I think emacs has some, but the rest of it isn't as nice as KDevelop --- all in all, I like KDevelop.  It is much like Borland, (and too much like VS mukrolost), and I and my helper have been productive from day one (perhaps two, but who's counting?)..

Thank you for doing a good job, and having the interest to listen to users...