Customizing Behaviour of Rapid PHP 2008?

[Eri]

I am a die-hard Notepad user considering a conversion to Rapid PHP 2008--I really love most of the features, but others are incredibly annoying and I am hoping there is a way to turn them off.

When asked, I maintain that I use Notepad because it is faster than any GUI editor I've ever tried. Rapid PHP seems to have just enough "extras" above Notepad that it will do just what its name says--make things faster--without interfering with the speed of straight coding. But as I have been using it I've run into the following annoyances and wonder if there is a way to turn them off.

1) I can't seem to backspace from the first character of one line to the last character of the previous line. I do this a LOT. Is it possible to enable this? Sometimes it seems to work and others it doesn't.

2) I often want to click at the end of a line. In Notepad I can do this by placing my mouse anywhere on the line after the last character and the cursor automatically appears after the last character. In Rapid PHP the cursor appears wherever I click, resulting in having to spend extra time either perfectly lining up the mouse pointer or arrowing back to the correct location. I use a laptop with a touchpad frequently and lining up the cursor perfectly is time consuming. Is there a way to turn off the extra space at the end of the lines?

3) When creating tables (I produce a lot of scripts that use extensive tabular data) I like the automatic insertion of the closing tags, but it would be great to be able easily place them in the correct location (format-wise) when placing a table cell between tr tags. I find that I have to arrow over the closing tags and format them manually, which adds, rather than saves, time over just typing in the tags manually. Is there any way to adjust this?

Thanks for any tips!

--Eri

[MikeyB]

Hi Eri,

I use WeBuilder, but it's essentially the same, with a few more bits!

1) Never had that problem myself, I do it a lot it's never failed.

2) Goto Options -> Preferences -> Text Editor, and un-tick "Constraint cursor to text"

3) Not entirely sure what you mean, if I type <td> WeBuidler adds the </td> and the cursor is between the two.

[syrupcore]

If I understand 1) correctly, MikeyB's 2) should fix it.

I'm also not sure what you mean by 3). Is it that the editor is formatting it like <tr></tr> and you'd prefer something like:

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<tr>
    (caret here)
</tr>

I don't think there's a way to change the default behavior for this but if you haven't explored snippets, do! Any formatting you want all callable via callword or keyboard shortcut. take that notepad!