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John,

Thanks for this. I use block comments when I want to temporarily get rid of a bit of code when testing/debugging. Yes I can select the block & do what you suggest instead. CCS4 seems to have (almost) every parameter adjustable, yet it insists on thinking it can enhance my code for me, and since it knows better than me it does not allow me to shut it off :-) Maybe the feature can be disabled?

Another simple thing - how do I get edit undo/redo buttons on the menubar?

You have given a link to track issues. I had wondered how to see these bug reports that had been mentioned in other posts on this forum. Does this link give all issues, or just your issues, or what?

Roger

Roger,

No luck in turning off the auto commenting I tried a few options but nothing seems to turn it off.  I will ask some of the guys around the office as well.

Eclipse doesn't seem to have undo/redo buttons.  I figured it did and we had just removed them to shorten the toolbar.  You can customize the toolbar by right-clicking on it and selecting customize perspective.  However I didn't see anything there.  I also tried the latest Eclipse 3.6 and it doesn't have the buttons either.

For issue tracking the link in my signature goes to a tool where you can access a set of pre-built reports as well as enter in any bug # you see on the forums and check there status.  My link logs you in with a read-only account that is shared however you can create your own account if you want to and create custom queries but I think for most people just punching in the bug # will work.

Regards,

John

Undo/Redo - a strange omission or am I the only one who makes mistakes :-)

Thanks for your help --- Roger

You can always use Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y

John

John,

Another couple of things on the same lines that seem pretty basic but are missing (at least I can't find them) are:
Ability to drag a section of text, and drag & copy. Just like any other editor!
A feature I find very useful on another IDE is to have all the last N cuts and copies held in a window so that you can paste any of these.

I'm surprised that in such a sophisticated product these basic things are missing. It just makes me wonder if there is some ideological thing going on here :-)

Do you think these basic functionalities could be added in future releases?

Regards   ---   Roger

Roger,

CCSv4.x is based on Eclipse 3.2 which doesn't support dragging sections of text.  However this will be available in CCSv5.x as it is supported by newer versions of Eclipse.  I just tried it out and I can drag text within the editor as well as drag variables to the expressions view.

I don't see anything for advanced clipboard.  There are a lot of new things in the editor in newer Eclipse releases so it is definitely being improved.

Regards,

John

I have to agree with Roger on two points:

First, I also do not like the automatic addition of the * at the next line. It is very poor that you cannot disable that feature. I would strongly encourage TI to add the ability to disable this stupid feature.

Second, CCS, and software in general, should not be in the business of assuming that it is smarter than the user and forcing predictive behavior at every turn. This notion is also hated in the Microsoft software too. No, I do not need a Tour of Windows!

Kevin

JohnS,

Thanks for your reply, it helped me find the block comment option in the version of CCS that I'm using.

JohnS said:

One thing you can do is write your comments first and then go back and select them, right click and from the menu select Comment -> Comment or Add Comment block.

Note to those taking this advice from John, the 'comments' option is under 'Source' in the right click menu. I've verified this using CCSv5.4.

Thanks!

Clinton

Good point.  The menus are a bit different version to version.

This is what it will look like in v6.  Very similar to CCSv5.5/5.4.