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Expression Editors: Quality of life update

Few ideas for boosting the expression editor:

 

1) When writing expressions it can be hard to trace the matching brackets. Can we add some corresponding bracket colours to address this.

2) When I want to wrap an expression in brackets ([{or other symbols!}]) I have to manually add a bracket to the beginning and end of the expression. In Jupyter Notebooks (and many other softwares or IDEs), you can highlight a string, add a single bracket to it and it'll wrap the entire highlighted string with an opening and closing bracket. 

3) Multi-line cursor. This is a real gem of a feature if possible.

 

I will add a GIF that demonstrates all three together in action:

 

Expression-editors-qol-large.gif

All the best,

BS

3 Comments

Hello @BS_THE_ANALYST,

Thanks for submitting a Community Idea. Would you be able to add some context for this post? Is this an idea for Designer or Community use? 

Thanks!

Alteryx Community Team

BS_THE_ANALYST
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar

Hi, 

 

This is for Designer. Apologies, I think I put this in the wrong forum!

 

All the best,

BS

@BS_THE_ANALYST no worries, we can move this to Designer for you!