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Why don't more IDEs provide better CSS support. The ZDE Inspectors window should outline all the CSS declarations of the file. Additionally CSS folding would be incredibly useful. Seems like CSS is always being overlooked.
You should try eclipse with PDT (the zend plugin). It has all the nice features you mentioned.
If you take a look at the survey it mentions several features that are already parts of eclipse platform.
When there are hundreds of lines, and i am editing a middle part, i may need to see code of first few lines. I know that split view can do that, but it is not comfortable when you want to be looking at both whats far up and far down quickly.
Collapsing is also handy when a large portion of the code is already working well and i dont want to see it anymore (gets in my way) while i am working on the "broken" peace.
This feature made my developing experience very easy while i was with ColdFusion in DreamWeaver (dont remember if CFEclipse supported it). When i switched over to PHP (should have started with PHP from the beginning...) and started to use Zend studio as my main development environment, looking at large code became quite stressfull.
I would greatly welcome Collapse/Expand of ANY selected set of lines, not just functions, etc. in Zend Studio.
Until about a year ago I used to work with Oracle JDeveloper. It had a (second party) 'variable hightlighting' plugin and it really made a difference! I put the cursor on a variable and it highlighted all occurences in the code (within the correct scope). It also enabled me to rename it throughout its scope with one simple shortcut (ctrl+alt+r if I remember correctly). I'd really like to see this in Zend Studio
(if such a feature isn't already being implemented :) ).
Until about a year ago I used to work with Oracle JDeveloper. It had a (second party) 'variable hightlighting' plugin and it really made a difference! I put the cursor on a variable and it highlighted all occurences in the code (within the correct scope). It also enabled me to rename it throughout its scope with one simple shortcut (ctrl+alt+r if I remember correctly). I'd really like to see this in Zend Studio
(if such a feature isn't already being implemented :) ).
I use ZDE each day, and like it a lot, but I'd love to be able to set how clone views are done. Right now, they go to a vertical split view, but I prefer horizontal. I know you can make that happen by going over and clicking -> bottom, but why not make it a preference?