After trying all of the different themes I have settled on using ‘Code Dark’ as my preference so my findings are based on that theme.
I want to say that code view is definitely improved! Selections are now accurate, ttag pairs are nicely selected, auto add closing tag now works. PHP pages are now recognized as HTML. Overall the code view is now so much more usable!
One thing that is still a bit annoying is the tag popup text … can this be made into a preference to have these show or not? I can see them being useful for some people. But I find them annoying and would love the option to turn them off.
More learning. Problem is that my mind is already saturated to full capacity. I guess that if I throw out some of the knowledge gained while using a previous IDE, it should free up some space.
You could edit each line, clicking in the relevant spot and then typing or pasting… Or, you could click just once and make cursors appear like this, then just type once:
Multiple cursors can be placed anywhere - not just in a vertical line. I might want to change a query name in several places: