Auto-outlining for FORTRAN

[acar]

Hi,

This is a suggestion for future improvements of the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE for Fortran developers. It may already exist and/or I may be making this suggestion in the wrong forum or even to the wrong company. Nonetheless I shall make the suggestion and see what happens.

Suggestion - Outlining is a really useful feature especially when one has many routines in a single file. As far as I know the only way to add outlining is manually and this isn't so bad if the IDE retains the outlining. I have noticed that when VS crashes the outlining is lost. I wonder whether an auto outlining feature could be added to the system at least for each subroutine?

Thanks,

Angus.

[Wendy_Doerner__Intel · Accepted solution]

Angus,

Thanks for asking about outlining. I have added your request for it to an existing feature request and will update this thread when/if a compiler exists with it or if engineering wants more clarifcation on your request.

It helps when customers ask for these features for us to priortize new feature work.

The engineering database number is: DPD200153483

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Wendy

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[rase]

Pardon me for my ignorance: What is outlining?

[psantos]

Rase,

Perhaps the following link will clarify you.


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/td6a5x4s%28v=vs.71%29.aspx


Pedro

[rase]

Aha, I see. Pedro, thanks a lot for aggrandizing my knowledge.

[TimP]

As I understood it, it was another name for code-straightening optimizations such as ifort may perform, possibly getting information from prof-gen/prof-use analysis.

[acar]

TimP - I'm afraid I don't understand what you are talking about!!

[TimP]

I do see that Microsoft has used the term out-lining also in a very different sense for editing .NET C++ projects, which might be relevant to compilers which fit into the .NET CLR framework (of which ifort is not one). As Microsoft gave up some time ago attempting to force all Fortran compilers into the .NET framework or off Windows, it's certainly possible to be confused about your meaning.

[abhimodak]

Hi Angus

The outlining is saved with a project/solution. This partially helps. Of course, having a full support will be awesome. However, it has been asked for at least three years now and, in past, Steve Lionel had correctly pointed out Microsoft related issues that prohibit/limit these features along with F2003 compliance being priority.

I feel good that Wendy has mentioned that "it has entered the Intel system". As pointed out previously, there are other Fortran Compilers integrated with Visual Studio that do support such edtior enhancements.

Abhi