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# August 15, 2007 6:45 AM

Doug said:

I really like the word-wrap feature.

Other favourites:

- ctl-K, ctl-D to reformat document

- a vertical ruler set to 8 characters so that it is easy to see where a method is finished

--> it would be neat to have an other way to match openning and closing braces for reading methods larger than a screenful. You could drag a vertical ruler line to where you wanted it and use it to match openning and closing blocks.

# August 15, 2007 9:49 AM

Jason Haley said:

# August 15, 2007 10:32 AM

John Kraft said:

Wow. I never really understood what 'virtual space' was until this post. Now that little checkbox makes sense. I have seen it before, though, and I don't like it.

# August 15, 2007 11:37 AM

GregM said:

I always use virtual space, and really hate using machines that don't have it enabled. I started using it because that's how Emacs behaves. I started off with Emacs as my main editor, and still to this day customize Visual Studio to use Emacs-like keybindings. (I don't actually use the Emacs mode, because I find it does things that I don't want it to do, though I can't remember now what they might be.)

One of the things that it is really useful for is lining up things in columns even when there are blank lines between the columns, or when you're adding a new column beyond the end of the current line.

The other thing that I find it most useful for is that your cursor doesn't jump back and forth across the screen as you are using the keyboard navigation to move up and down the document, just because some lines are shorter than others.

# August 15, 2007 1:16 PM

Naveen Kada said:

We can match the opening and closing braces using Ctrl + } or {.

# August 17, 2007 4:25 AM

Ahmed said:

I tried Virtual Space and didn't like it. I do like how VS 2005 puts the cursor in the correctly tabbed place when you click past that point on an empty line.

Word Wrap has got to be a no-no for code!

Would be nice:

- To be able to jump to the matching bracket using a key combination - useful when both brackets are not visible at the same time.

- To open/close outlined areas using a key combination.

# August 17, 2007 5:06 AM

NickV said:

It'd be nice if Ctrl+{ and Ctrl+} matched VB's begin and end statement keywords (e.g., "If ... Then" and "End If")

# October 12, 2007 12:25 PM

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