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IDE improvement requests
Mikko M
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Feature Request

Hi,

As I have used ide for some time there are some things I would like to request. I think it's a good idea to have a thread that has requests as there is no open issue tracker (at least I'm not aware of one) for the IDE.

Some simple requests:
- When you start a full backtest and click "algorithm", the IDE will always be at the begin of the code. IDE should remember the code point that you were in.
- There should be search and replace function
- There should be some kind of support for indentation change for code block (in cases where you have to copy code)

2 responses
Alisa Deychman

Mikko, thanks for the requests. The good news is you can already indent/outdent multiple lines of code simultaneously, take a look at the keyboard shortcuts here: https://www.quantopian.com/help#api-ide-tips

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Mikko M

One extremely helpful aspect would be to have some kind of note field for backtests. Actually it would suffice if you could store the current name of the algo for each backtest and show it so after I have modified the algo and ran several backtests I could just check what the name of the algo was at the time of the test.

(I'm aware that I can check the code diff but checking the name would be much easier and faster)

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