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Please improve the code editor in 8.1.5

The font choice in the code editor in 8.1.5 is absolutely horrible. I'm honestly surprised that someone made the decision to change the font in the editor to Open Sans. Please change it back or at least to a font choice ideal for code. 

The code editor in 8.1.5 also introduces an issue where pasting code into the editor makes it an unusable mess. I keep a notes app with common code and also from articles on my website that I use often to paste code blocks into the code editor and it's always worked fine. In the 8.1.5 editor it loses all line breaks and becomes all one single line. This worked before, so maybe this is due to the new font? Either way, productivity has taken a hit because of this.

The code editor has taken some steps backwards in 8.1.4 and 8.1.5. It has become more and more aggravating to use. The inconsistent use of spacing makes working in the code editor in Creatio very frustrating. When typing and you hit tab you get 2 spaces, but the designer adds to the page code using 4 spaces or an actual tab. It becomes a mess quickly and makes page code difficult to work with and difficult to read. The addition of updated jshint esversion for support of arrow functions, async/await, etc was a welcome change, but other than that things have become worse in the editor.

Please make some changes to the editor, it is desperately needed. It honestly wouldn't take much.

  1. A better font or go back to the one previously used before 8.1.5.
  2. Fix the inconsistent spacing - please, either tabs or 4 spaces like the older editor used, never 2 spaces.
  3. Fix whatever broke the ability to paste code into the editor, this one is very important and probably the worst of the list IMO.
  4. No line wrapping for long lines (this has always been an issue).

Sorry for the bluntness and venting, but I have to work in this editor every day and I know it can be better - because it was better before. I'd take the older code editor back over the new one for sure.

Ryan

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Hi Ryan,

 

Thank you for your detailed feedback. We have created a task for our R&D team to address all the suggestions you've provided. We understand the importance of these improvements and are dedicated to enhancing the code editor experience. Your input is valuable in helping us make these enhancements.

Dear support, please help us, I have the same problems reported by Ryan, I'm also and guess the most of us, had a library of code to paste and adjust it, but now is almost impossible to do this

Another major annoyance with the code editor that was introduced in 8.1.4. If you're typing in a line and the intellisense shows, before you could hit tab to select the item in the intellisense however now hitting tab indents the whole line in a tab.

That's actually a very good point. I thought I'm the only one who notice how eye sore it is. I used to do CTRL + Shift + Tab to fix code spacing before, but now it won't work and looks really messy. My work hours can't keep up with my OCD to always make the code line-up well. 

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