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Just thought I would mention that when using the scrollbar at the bottom of the screen, Yu can click and drag, but the scrollbar will return to its original position if you move the mouse past about one-third of the screen. I would think that it should work every where, you only have to click on the scroll bar first.

It's a standard windows scrollbar, I can't change this behavior... I think it's the same for most editors and all windows controls that use scrollbar. If you try this with any listbox, textbox, it's same there too.

I was really after just simple text editing. I find it useful to have a simple text file open to add things todo etc...

Ok, thanks for the explanation... and there will be a ToDo list soon.

Hi, can I get rid of the breakpoint margin on the left to make more room?

No, but I can add this option, probably for the next release.

Is there a way to do a Replace over all open files?

Yes, just choose Search-In : All Files in the Find/Replace dialog box.

What about a feature where if you type "variable++" it converts to "variable=variable+1"? Just an idea.

IDEal has custom built powerful parser/highlighting engine and things like this are easy to implement now. Let's just define this feature a little better...

Do you want this to be controllable with shortcut or editor should automatically make the conversion as you type ( or when you hit ENTER on that line ) ?

Let's make this more useful, so it can serve also for var=var-1 , var=var+2, and maybe var=var*5 ...
What if you have a shortcut which when pressed will add "= wordbeforecursor" so if you have typed "variable" pressing shortcut will convert it to "variable=variable" and here you can
add anything, like "+1" , "-1", " +5 " etc. ? So, it's the same number of characters typed and more functionality ?

The point is, let's make this more usable, not only for "+1" ...
Note that I think that it's better this to be implemented with shortcut, because of the wider functionality and because there may be certain situations when you may not want automatic conversion...