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 ) ?
Hey, thanks for the interest in this idea. I'm really interested in this IDE.
How I want it to work is: All you have to do is type "var++" then press space or move the cursor anywhere, it changes to "var=var+1"
It's just so easy to use this way that I'd like the "var++" shortcut to be separate from the general "var=var[operator][value]"
"var++" isn't valid syntax so it should be okay to always automatically convert.