Would it be possible to include something similar to intellisense in FPMI? This would be useful in both the jython section and the expression language. I find I have to constantly click on the function button to see what parameters the lookup function takes. If a tooltip would pop up while I type it would make for a great feature.
You aren’t the first to request this feature, believe me. Its on “the list”. That said, it isn’t trivial, and there are a number of more pressing features, so I wouldn’t expect it too soon.
On a related note, a vim-like (or even vi-like) mode for the editor would be super. Or, better yet, having a setting to change the default editor to something installed on the local computer, like all the UNIX terminal applications do with the EDITOR variable.
It’s not a very pressing issue, but it’d be nice to avoid copying and pasting code between editors, as well as getting ‘:wq’ out of all my minor edits
Duly noted, althought I’m not sure how the external editor thing would work since we aren’t dealing with files here…
For an example of the external editor, refer to a program like mutt, a console email program that you’d find on just about any linux box. When you go to type an email, it launches whatever editor is listed in the EDITOR environmental variable. I don’t believe it ever stores a file - instead, it stores the text in a buffer and returns it to mutt when it’s done running.
I’m not sure how the buffer is passed… probably through a pipe, but that wouldn’t work on Windows. Some popular editors have a client/server mode or ftp mode - perhaps that could be used? I believe vim, emacs, and notepad++ all have this functionality.
It’s not really a feature I’d expect to ever get implemented, but as you probably know, most programmers love their editor more than their family, so it’d be an awesome present nonetheless.