Rethinking the Delphi code editor
When you chose to use Delphi, you picked a great language with an absolutely perfect, flawless, IDE that couldn’t possibly be improved.
Right?
Wait, what’s that you’re saying?
It’s NOT perfect? It CAN be improved?
Ok, I admit, that was a lousy attention-getter to open with, but the fact is, I love Delphi, but I think the IDE can be improved to save you time and effort, and I’ve set out to improve it with Castalia for Delphi.
For example, Castalia adds some awesome advanced syntax highlighting that helps you understand code faster, whether it’s your own code, someone else’s code, or even your own code that you wrote a while ago and now it looks like someone else’s (we’ve all been there).
There’s also some great code navigation tools that let you find your way around that code super fast, without having to hunt for things.
<BillyMays>Plus, there’s more!</BillyMays>
In this video, I show a few ways that Castalia improves the Delphi code editor to save you time. It barely scratches the surface of what Castalia can do, but if you’re writing Delphi code, you WILL be able to do it faster after you watch this 8-and-a-half minute video:
Give it a try. Download a free trial at http://www.twodesk.com/castalia/freetrial.html
Hi, I’ve been considering Castalia for a while. There is one feature that I would like it to have (perhaps I just missed it) and it is a way for the Code formatter tool to ignore certain blocks.
In the Java – Eclipse world, you have some special comments:
/* @formatter:on */Is this possible to achieve this with Castalia?
Thanks,
Leo