Hello,
I haven't done a lot of pascal code lately, and even less free pascal
code using lazarus. I wanted to make changes in some old software I
made for my own usage.
After trying the delphi 2007 trial a couple of month ago, I've been
really surprised at how "bad" the lazarus editor feels, *at least with
the default install*.
I'm not speaking about the IDE, it's as fast as back when I used it,
and looks more stable, I didn't get any issue with it while coding.
But the editor seems to
1 - lack some features
For exemple, when typing begin, I've been used to delphi writing two
new lines, "end;", ans putting me on the middle line, just where I
should type.
I understand this is "code templates" or something like this, and
there may even be a way to do it in lazarus yet. My issue is that you
install, it doesn't do it.
2 - act weirds with tabs
This got me completly off of it and I went back to fpcgui to edit my files.
I don't remember the setting I changed, I know I have tried the
default ones, they were painfull, I tried using everything available,
and it never worked great.
Right now my "indent block" is set to two.
function blah(i: string): integer;
begin
ddddd; // indent: 5
if (true) then
dosomework; // indent: 8, 5 + 3 ...
end;
I could not get it to indent to less than 5 chars on the first tab,
which is really too much (it starts *after* the begin word ...).
When you try to edit into the tab thing it gets even worse.
If I put my caret after dosomework; press enter, i'm on the same column.
So I need to unindent, i press backspace, it unindent back to column 0.
Okay so I press tab to get to my column. It indent to column 8, not 5.
That's where it lost me.
I understand you guys are working hard on lazarus, I know if I want to
help I can submit patches and stuff, I'm not asking for anything, only
wanted to give you a feedback from someone who gets back into it.
Hope this might be helpfull
Lazarus 0.9.23 / Windows XP SP2
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Vianney Devreese - Lepidosteus
http://lepidosteus.com
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