I'm mostly enjoying Creator. But here's a couple things that drive me bonkers:
On MacOS, by default there an incompatible/unexpected mapping for home/end keys, across the OS. It can be fixed for some (most?) apps like this: http://phatness.com/node/1661 but, Creator is somehow not seeing the effects of that change in system-wide settings. I don't know enough about MacOS yet to know where that mapping ought to take place, though. "moveToEndOfLine" sounds like a higher-level event to me; but if Qt apps can only handle actual keys, how can it be fixed? Anyway it's completely wrecking my muscle memory whenever I use it on MacOS (now I have to be "afraid" of the end key in this one context). At least these keys (all key mappings, preferably) should be included in the key mappings in preferences so I can fix it separately. Next, the folding feature in the left margin is great, but often it interferes with my attempts to select entire lines of code (e.g. for drag-and-drop purposes) due to accidentally collapsing the whole block, which is quite distracting. I'm not accustomed to the fold "button" being so much larger than the icon (the arrow or plus/minus sign). I see that it's possible to select lines from the line-numbers area, but I guess it seems too detached, so I find myself trying to straddle the little space between the fold margin and the actual text. Maybe the fold column should be to the left of the line numbers? Or the fold buttons could be smaller (just the icons themselves), but I guess someone who folds a lot would like them large. But most of all, the cursor should change to a right-pointing one, like MS Word does, when you are in any area of the margin in which it is possible to select whole lines. Then at least you get feedback before the click. But, finally I realized I can turn off the fold feature for now. :-) So when I need to reorder lines of code, it's been a pain for both of these reasons. I'd prefer to do it on the keyboard, but home doesn't take me to the beginning of the line, shift-end doesn't highlight the line, and there is no shortcut I know for "select the whole line". SciTE has a key (control-D) to duplicate the current line (or the selected block if you pre-selected something) as well, which is occasionally useful. I found myself missing it once or twice, because again the alternative is to select the whole line (hard without working home/end keys), copy and paste. (Also control-D is a common enough mapping in drawing programs to duplicate the selected shape, so could potentially be a quasi-standard across most applications.) _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
