Wish Code completion / injection

[Jim Brown]

One very nice feature I have come across before in other language IDEs is the code completion or code injection. This is a great time saver for quickly entering common code blocks into your source code.
A bit like the time saving Sub <TAB> key feature for injecting events.

My idea is that you press a key combo (say Ctrl+J) to bring up a popup menu containing common code blocks. The pasted block is then injecting at the current cursor position. It should be nicely formatted with indented lines where applicable and the cursor positioned where you would expect to start typing from.

List of common code blocks

If Then

If * Then    ' cursor finishes at * position
    |        ' tabbed indent
End If

If Then Else

If * Then    ' cursor finishes at * position
    |        ' tabbed indent
Else
    |        ' tabbed indent
End If

Sub

Sub *        ' cursor finishes at * position
    |        ' tabbed indent
End Sub

For

For *= To     ' cursor finishes at * position
    |        ' tabbed indent
Next

Another idea, have an option in the IDE to 'Auto Complete code block' where any 'block' type code is automatically completed (i.e, If / Do / Sub / For).
So, if the programmer types If MyVar=10 Then followed by <RETURN> the IDE completes the block and moves the cursor into the indented line:

If MyVar=10 Then
    *        ' cursor position * (at tabbed indent)
End If

 

[sorex]

I think the first time I used such feature was about 10 years ago in AnyEdit.

nice feature but you forget about it easily because you don't use it as much as copy/paste shortcuts.