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Here are some ideas for a better (?) IDE...

Editor
• Backup: Allow to create *.bak files when a source will be saved manually (not done when doing a test run)

Search and Replace
• Find Dialog: Shortcuts (Alt+W for 'Whole Words only', Alt+N for 'Find Next' etc.)
• Regular Expressions: at least simple things to find HideGadget(blah,1) and HideGadget(blah,#True) easily
• Find: Highlight all found locations in source text

Tools & Tool Panels
• Constants: Show values in separate column, allow to switch hex/decimal, full text search
• Procedures: Highlight name of procedure of actual cursor position in list, highlight procedure calls in source text
• Variables: Highlight all occurences of a selected variable in the source text

Search and Replace
• Results: Add a "Copy to clipboard" button so we can feed the results into tools for automated processing

Maybe (some of these ideas) could be realized in the final relase of the new PB 5.1?

The shortcuts wouldn't be a great deal to implement, but would save a lot of time when working with the IDE...

Session history provides a much better backup like system.