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uVision Wish list (shortcuts, find/replace, precompiled headers)

Hi,
here some wishes for the uVision environment:
- The shortcut keys storage location should be shown somewhere (so that I can the shortcuts with me to my laptop easily). I think the most easy thing would be, if it would be displayed in the dialog "Edit"-"Configuration" on the page "Shortcut Keys" - (or in the Help file, if you press Help there).
- Find-Replace (Search-Replace): The selection should NOT disappear, afer you did a replace in some selected lines (sometimes I want to change several texts in such a selection block, then it is VERY annoying, if I have to renew the selection every time). (Best would be, if also the search-replace window would keep open, until I close it explicitely, as in Visual C).
- The status message "Passed the end of the file" should be accompanied with a beep (and it should disappear, if I do anything else than pressing F3 - now it just keeps standing there all the time, and I do not know, it it really passed end of file, or if this is due to some more previous search).
- Precompiled headers: The possibility to group the source files into subfolders in the project-tree is very nice. Usually I now use the same subfolder names, which I also use in my source folder. BUT: Unfortunately Precompiled Headers do not work correctly with subfolders. (e. g. I have "#include stm32f4xx.h" at beginning of each source file, and then "pragma hdrstop". This works nicely, if all c files are in one folder. But if I organize them in different subfolders, it does not work any more).

Some more advanced wishes:
- F4/ CTRL-F4: It would be VERY nice, if this would work like in Visual C: e. g. if I am in ModuleA.C and keep CTRL fixed and press 3 times F4 (3 is just some example), then for example I would reach ModuleX.C. If then I press CTRL-F4 ONCE, I come back to ModuleA.C. So every CTRL-F4 reorders the CTRL-F4 window list - and with CTRL-F4 once, I always come back to my last module.
- It would be very nice, if function/procedure comments in Java style (/** .... */) would be supported, and would be shown in a yellow tooltip window, if I move over a function name.
- Of course it would be very very very nice if structure parameter preview would work. If possible, not only after compilation/built (as I know it from some other microcontroller programming systems), but also if I change structures during a programming cycle, best of course also, if I define new structures (as in Visual C or Eclipse).
- For precompiled header, it would be nice if there is a configuration possibility "create header through the file xxxx.h" - usually in any large multi-module project, I have one large header file which best should be handled by precompiled header functionality.

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