By day, I'm "forced" to program in a Windows environment. While we have the flexibility to use other (free) programs, my company has only purchased UltraEdit and only considers that as our "standard" other than Visual Studio. Anyway, there's a feature in UltraEdit that, when enabled, will automatically substitute two dots '..' with the C/Perl/PHP method operator for an object '->'. The idea is:

$this->db->get->($sql)->result()->row(0);

While that's not too bad for typing, it can get old with OOP if you've got a lot of method chaining. UltraEdit speeds this up for me because I only type this:

$this..db..get..($sql)..result()..row(0);

It seems kind of silly - but you'd be surprised how much of a time saver it can be. Go ahead - type both of those strings and see which one is easier :)

In Kate/Quanta, it appears as if there's something *similar* where I can have one word templates that are substituted, but it won't allow for me to use the '..' to .->' autocorrect that I'm looking for.

Is there a way to add this feature in? I think it would be something really helpful; especially for PHP programmers that use OOP.

Thanks,

Jon