Re: High Variables in LPEX like Text Editor.

On 4/24/2013 11:31 AM, Ken Killian wrote:

If you use Eclipse for Java, and double-click a variable, all occurrences of that variable are highlighted. As do many other IDE, like Visual Studio. And also my favorite text editor: Notepad++. <Joy Joy>

I wonder why LPEX cannot duplicate this behavior. After all of the source is downloaded to the local PC anyway.

The answer probably lies in how we got here. The history of the GUI
developer tools started out more like an incrementally better SEU and
less like a fully integrated development environment. Once Code/400 was
ported to Eclipse, we got the skeleton of an IDE but not a lot of the
functionality that other programming communities got. Why?

Because other communities have a very large, very interested base of
programmers willing to write, debug, contribute and support Eclipse
plugins. The midrange community doesn't. So the Java people got
together and wrote the variable highlighting code by themselves. They
didn't wait for IBM or Sun or Microsoft to assign resources to do it.

We can write plugins, but the editor isn't open source (history again),
so user-written plugins don't easily mesh with the editor.

All that being said, Rational have a way to suggest enhancements: RFEs.
Request For Enhancements. You'll have to join Developerworks (free)
but anyone can make a suggestion, and many of us on this list have.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/?BRAND_ID=1 Once you join you can
also vote on suggestions others have submitted. This voting activity
shows Rational that there is an active user community for this product.
Which I think is a Good Thing.
--buck