Ahhhh... don't get me started about auto-completion. Memory-greedy mess in Libreoffice made me hate that whole suite, besides it crashing while changing many things about the configuration... and the directories better exist IJS.
Why does anybody want auto-completion in a nostalgic IDE? I guess because now we have open and save file dialogs that look like those on "ordinary" Windows applications!
The IDE is already slow on Linux. Try pressing and holding an arrow key for about two seconds. With an emulation of IntelliSense I think this one problem could be fixed, though. Bark back with help, not with a syntax error on a line the user hasn't finished typing yet.
The Purebasic IDE had something which displayed the procedure/function "prototype" for one that was just typed on the screen. On the status bar, for example, it showed something like "LOCATE row, column, cursor-on-off, start-cursor, end-cursor | Sets the status of the cursor in text console" after "LOCATE" was typed in the editing window. This is being described for a QB64 command, not actually supported by that language product which looks more like Pascal than BASIC. This status bar help was most helpful for Win API statements.
Why does anybody want auto-completion in a nostalgic IDE? I guess because now we have open and save file dialogs that look like those on "ordinary" Windows applications!
The IDE is already slow on Linux. Try pressing and holding an arrow key for about two seconds. With an emulation of IntelliSense I think this one problem could be fixed, though. Bark back with help, not with a syntax error on a line the user hasn't finished typing yet.
The Purebasic IDE had something which displayed the procedure/function "prototype" for one that was just typed on the screen. On the status bar, for example, it showed something like "LOCATE row, column, cursor-on-off, start-cursor, end-cursor | Sets the status of the cursor in text console" after "LOCATE" was typed in the editing window. This is being described for a QB64 command, not actually supported by that language product which looks more like Pascal than BASIC. This status bar help was most helpful for Win API statements.