Hey @Simeon, @John,
I’m on iPad Pro 12.9", the latest Codea Beta and iOS11 - but I had these issues under iOS10 too
- when selecting text with SHIFT+ArrowKeys, the editor scrolls randomly to different positions further down or to the end of the file
- ALT+ArrowKeys stopped working, which I need a lot while jumping through code or selecting text, etc.
- ‘find & replace’ until today never worked correctly for me. Lately it deleted portions of my code while replacing string in random places. I never use this functionality anymore because I fear data loss.
I think the editor generally needs some more love. It got worse and worse with each release after the rewrite of Codea a few releases back. It needs to be improved in all areas:
- edit two files in split screen
- new view for file management (scrolling 20x tabs is nightmare)
- more stability! (code disappears when too many tabs created; find&replace destroy code randomly; etc.)
- ability to edit code of ‘imported projects’ in place
- ability to edit shaders in place
- regex expressions support for find & replace
- ‘find’ should also search imported projects (sometimes you need to know if you have certain functionality somewhere)
- ‘goto’ command for jumping to line numbers, file names, function names and class names
If I can help you somehow, just let me know.
Codea is very powerful but its management tools are pretty limited. I would love to see an editor overhaul because I think this limits people writing serious software with Codea.
thank you