Did you know... You can display Guidelines in the Editor - #184

re: Did you know... You can display Guidelines in the Editor, and Tip of the Day ends today - #184

VooDoo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:40:37 GMT

Did you know your tips are very useful ?

re: Did you know... You can display Guidelines in the Editor, and Tip of the Day ends today - #184

Sue Hernandez — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:32:00 GMT

OK, I'll admit - I bit. I was fooled.

Keep those tips coming!! Thanks, and Happy April 1st!

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Antonio — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:16:36 GMT

Hey! that's an evil joke!

I almost cry!!!

You don't have the right to stop the Tip of the Day, ok?

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pszalapski — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:22:55 GMT

These are handy; I've set one up at 8 and one at 80, so that I can have a visual aid for where "two indents" is and one where the traditional max-width is (even though I go over it all the time).

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DM — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:33:23 GMT

Hi Sara,

You've repeated the typo... "RBG(128,...

Many thanks for the tips of the day!

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saraford — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:13:03 GMT

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I even told myself, "Sara, don't repeat the typo."

thanks DM, i've corrected the typo. Would you believe my focus in college was computer graphics? =)

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Kelvin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:01:02 GMT

I've put this one to good use in VS2005. I do a lot of HTML editing for my major client (a lot of Classic ASP conversions) and quite a bit of code was written by programmers, NOT web developers. Needless to say, you can tell that they though of nesting as an afterthought, not a way of life.

Anyway, the guidless at the first 5 tab stops help me to quickly match up tags and keep things properly nested. It's also good when editing JavaScript.

Thanks Sara!

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Niraj Bhatt — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:13:47 GMT

Understand it is cool and pardon my ignorance but can someone tell me what can this be used for? Usually VS takes care of indentation, If the guidelines were movable like in photoshop (or other graphic packages) I could have used it for checking on start and end brackets. As they are not movable I can't remove them when they are annoying (hint hint.. someone make them movable) and usually I don't care how long my line is. Is there any usability reasons for this. Irrespective of anything it is good to know about it.

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DM — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:12:55 GMT

Okay, I tried posting earlier today but I think it didn't work...

I was telling you that you would be getting away with the typo for a second time (for free) because your tips are very interesting.

But ooops, I re-read your correction and instead of correcting the typo you replicated it to "RBG(x,y,z)".

Okay, you're still getting away with that mistake, because it's you.

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Steve — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:58:10 GMT

Don't you mean "gridlines", not guidelines?

Guidelines are what you give us all day... right?