Czukowski created NETBEANS-3032:
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Summary: Copy & paste improvement of variable names in PHP editor
Key: NETBEANS-3032
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3032
Project: NetBeans
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: php - Editor
Affects Versions: 11.1
Reporter: Czukowski
I would like to propose an improvement for PHP editor. When one needs to have
class method that set object properties, such as setter methods or constructors
for dependency injection, method parameter names are often same as the object
properties, so copy and pasting of the parameters names often occurs. However
the variable names are being selected including the dollar sign prefix {{$}}
and after pasting it needs to be removed. If there are many parameters to set,
this may become very routine work.
The idea is that when the paste _containing a variable name_ occurs right after
{{$this->}} (or perhaps rather after object instance operator {{->}}), then it
will be pasted _without the {{$}} sign_. I believe this would greatly improve
the workflow.
{code:php}
function __construct($someProperty) {
$this->someProperty = $someProperty;
}
{code}
So in order to achieve property assignment, one would need to type
{{$this->}}, ctrl+v, {{=}}, ctrl+v
instead of, for example:
{{$this->}}, ctrl+v, ctrl+back-arrow (multiple times), backspace, end, {{=}},
ctrl+v
Of course, there could be variable variables, but I believe these haven't been
considered a good practice for a long time and in any case, are much much more
rare than the use case above.
Do you see any possible drawbacks to this?
There could also be a suggestion to generate the assignment for even less
keystrokes, but I figure it would be far more complex solution than this.
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