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Does anyone know how to use column mode for editing source code within uVision3 IDE??? I am used to using Jens where I could insert text in a column format defined by the start and stop of the drag of my cursor. I could then right click and insert defined text on all lines simultaneously starting where my cursor orignated to the end of the highlighted segment area in a column format. Can anyone help with this??? I know how to use the Alt key and mouse to highlight text in a column format, but I can find a way to enter text on multiple lines in a column format. This is very annoying.
edit files outside of the system and import them back into the project
Are you sure you know what you're talking about?
It would be nice for one if a company took into consideration all of the editing features that are used by 99% of the software programming community
And what evidence do you have that your particular feature of choice is actually among those 99%?
That set aside, no, that thing would not be nice. It would be huge to the point of being unusable, particularly for newbies.
For starters, it's quite a waste of manpower if every compiler vendor tries to match that goal on their own. The world doesn't need dozens of different implementations of the complete, all-features-covered, perfect IDE. It needs only one --- and it only took about 20 years for the community to realize that. Eclipse seems to be well on the way to eventually end this waste of effort.
I disagree!
Eclipse seems to me to be a perfect illustration that "It would be huge to the point of being unusable"
Eclipse is so versatile and so configurable that, it seems to me, it's (almost) impossible for any non-specialist to understand!
Building an Eclipse-based IDE seems to need about as much development effort as building a proprietary IDE!
And, when things go awry, there's the doubts as to whether the problem is specific to the particular Eclipse implementation (for the implementor to fix), or part of the Framework (for the Eclipse community to fix).
Oh, and Eclipse does not do any form of column editing - it doesn't even do what uVision does! So, when I'm using an Eclipse-based IDE, I still switch to CodeWright when I want to do column editing!
You'll note I offered Eclipse as an example to support my assertion that the world has too many bad IDEs already, and could benefit from concentrating that effort some. I never claimed it was lightweight.
Eclipse is indeed huge. Don't even bother trying it in eanest on less than 1 GB. But it offers a lot of features for that price --- and the main advantage is that it's a framework, i.e. if you don't need a particular feature, you don't have to install it.
Eclipse is for IDEs what EMACS is among editors: their common property is that whatever feature you come up with that (you thing) you need, odds are high in the 90% range it's either already in the core package, or somebody has already written a plugin/module to do it.
It's not really all that bad. The default installation plus CDT plugin works fine as a generic IDE for C programs. It'll blow quite a number of vendor's self-made IDEs clean out of the water already. I've seen enough crappy IDEs in my time to have learned this: the world is better off with compiler writers not putting their time into user interface programming. The skillsets are just too different.
Specialist knowledge only gets involved if you were to make your own Eclipse plugins to, e.g., make an equivalent of uVision's devicse database and simulator engine part of Eclipse. And I rather much doubt that connecting such an engine into Eclipse is really harder than building your own IDE, project management, compiler option management, etc., from scratch.
Oh, and Eclipse does not do any form of column editing - it doesn't even do what uVision does!
Release documentation of Eclipse 3.5 seems to contradict you on that.