Wishes for the template editors - take 3.

[Thomas_Arnbjerg]

Below are additional suggestions for improvements to the template editors derived from my (probably not very efficient) way of working:

1) Don't scroll to the top when 'Save' is clicked.
Developing a template (the way I'm doing it) is an iterative process, where a template is repeatedly modified, saved and tried out. If the template area under construction is outside the visible area you have to scroll down to locate the location in the template you were last working with after each iteration.

2) Add a search (and replace) feature (The search feature in Firefox with highlighting is extremely effective). Very often I know (part of) the string I'm looking for to do a change (as a result of the scroll issue mentioned above I'm constantly scrolling down to find a particular string - i.e. the place I modified  during the last iteration).

3) A template refactoring feature would be nice. Select a section of a template, which should be transferred to a new sub template. The new template is created containing the selected section and a call to the new template is inserted.

In the beginning of the template construction phase templates are growing and growing as more transformation/code generation features are added. At some point a template needs refactoring (exactly as source code).  A refactoring feature would ease this process.