Re: Drag-and-drop editing - PLEASE!

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joe

Lots of good ideas there. And I see that Violaine, our champion, has 
taken them to their list.

I can say that WDSC has made me more productive - I love the outline 
view, and there are cut/copy/paste alternatives galore - like block 
and line and all that - that are inherited from several editors at 
IBM. All good.

And several times a day I'd benefit from drag-drop of source from one 
place to another - both within a single source member and between 
members - it'd be so helpful to select from one and simply drag it to 
the right place in another member. Yes, I can use the Ctrl-C Ctrl-V 
combination - and do all the time.

BTW, record-play is cool in WDSC - as far as it goes. But you can't 
save them - PC5250 macros, now, that is a good model for me - as well 
as macro recording in TextPad, which is awesome. Oh, yeah, TextPad 
has great syntax files and clip libraries for all kinds of languages 
- makes a great editor. CodeWright also, I hear.

So drag-drop was just the current thing I was not able to do that 
made me frustrated - low threshold for that these days - heh!

Oh yeah - for those of us who still find things like SEU overlay to 
be helpful, I'd love to be able to have a CC-CC block in one editor 
window and the target in another one - just as we can do in 
split-screen SEU. Easy to do? Probably not - which editor has the 
focus when you press Enter, right? But it'd be a nice feature for me, 
trying not to be too much of a luddite.

Later
Vern

At 08:00 AM 3/19/2007, you wrote:

> > From: Vernon Hamberg
> >
> > I've been really surprised that drag-drop editing has not been
> > available in RSE - it is ubiquitous in every other editor of any
> > flavor I know of - for text or for documents or for source or
> > whatever. Please, a request to the team to put more of this feature
> > into the product. Even things like drag-drop to move members from one
> > list to another. This capability is one I miss so - it would speed up
> > things a lot for me.
>
> Drag and drop for what?  To move chunks of source?  I teach people this
> tool, and I can tell you that the vast majority of green screen programmers
> don't need drag and drop source editing.  Many have a hard enough time using
> keyboard techniques such as marking lines of text and using Ctrl-C and
> Ctrl-V (which is essentially all you save with a drag and drop).
>
> There are some places in RSE (such as maintaining filters and filter pools),
> where drag and drop would definitely make life better, but I think we're
> reaching a point where we're starting to see a lot of "nice to haves", as
> opposed to added functionality.  You know what I really want?