Layer Editor - anyone use autocomplete?

[momijizukamori]

Anyone who has actually used the layer editor has probably discovered that it is kind of clunky and frustrating and is missing such basic things as line numbers (which is fantastic when the compiler gives you line numbers for errors, right?). There has been some talk of replacing it with something a little less frustrating, but the current editor has a few things that would be difficult to impossible to re-implement, which is most of the left-hand sidebar stuff and autocomplete (don't ask me how we have autocomplete, but Fu says we do and I trust Fu).

So, basically - does anyone use these features in the layer editor?

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[ninetydegrees]

I hate autocomplete because it sucks; if it was working well I might use it but it's not an indispensable feature to me. OTOH, I find the left-hand pane pretty useful when it works but that's also related to the fact that the editor is slow to reload the code when you compile it. If that got better I wouldn't rely on it so much.

Edit: also more room to display long lines and error messages would be a thousand times better than a non-collapsible navigation pane.

The only two things I really care about are line numbers and syntax highlighting. And possibly advanced search/replace. I'd rather have these than keep the current features.

[momijizukamori]

The replacement foxfirefey suggested as looking like the best alternative has a find/replace that can take regex! And yeah, while I'm going to have to write a custom syntax file, line numbers and syntax highlighting are a definite go no matter what.

(The one we're looking at is CodeMirror which has all sorts of crazy-cool features, though I can tell already I will need more JS skills to implement it)