Hi, Over the years I have noticed some shortcomings in the lazarus.dci handling. Here are some of my ideas. Please comment on them before I create official feature requests in Mantis.
* Lazarus should have seperate .dci files. One for "custom user settings" and one which contains the "default" .dci settings. That way if new default settings get applied to the lazarus.dci file, all users get it without the next Lazarus update. The lazarus.dci should live in the Lazarus install directory. Then we should have a user.dci in the profile directory. * If the user customizes an existing (default) code templates, they should be added to the user.dci file and override the default one. * This design which be extended even further to have language specific .dci files. Instead of lazarus.dci, rather have the following: - objectpascal.dci - java.dci - html.dci - javascript.dci etc... So as the IDE opens a file, lets say for example a "index.html" file, then the default code template for that file will be html.dci The "synedit" editor available on sourceforge already includes a lot of language specific dci files. I post those to mantis if needed. * Why doesn't the default lazarus.dci contain a "repeat...until' code template. I always add it myself though. * Maybe project specific code templates could also be an option. I'm not sure is this is really relevant, but it might be handy. For example, I develop many tiOPF (Object Persistent Framework) applications. I have a lot of code templates for such projects. But if I work on a quick console application, those code templates are not needed. Some maybe Lazarus Packages or Project Options could contain an entry for project or packages specific code templates. Project Options is probably the better option. Your thought? Any new suggestions? Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
