Requests for Rider Unreal
Rider Unreal is awesome so far, I'm really excited about this tool. It has made my workflow much smoother compared to Visual Studio / ReShaper C++.
I've encountered a few issues and I'd just like to raise visibility on them here:
* Format on Save would be great. I'm doing the macro thing right now but hitting Ctrl+S isn't the only way I can save. For example saving with :w in VI mode doesn't format this way
* Haven't found a way to move a tab to the left or right split pane that I can rebind easily. VI mode has this with ctrl + w, left or ctrl + w, right which works but I'd like to be able to bind that in Rider's keybinds to something like ctrl alt left or ctrl alt right
* Would be great to set a lock or something on the unreal engine files so I don't accidently change them when viewing them thus causing me to do a full engine rebuild. I'd like to be able to opt-in to editing them somehow. Maybe I can set perforce auto checkout only for some directories?
* The build configuration list is too noisy, it would be great if I could star the configurations I actually cared about and could hide the rest or something like that.
* Would be great if Goto would support blueprints also
I'm sure I'll come up with more suggestions, but great work so far!
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Hi,
Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback, we're happy to hear that you rate Rider UE highly.
"Format on Save would be great"
Rider (and other IntelliJ-base IDEs) performs Save automatically, which means that reformatting can occur in unpredictable moments of time. The feature is under discussion at the moment, please feel free to add a comment to the corresponding issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-7960
"Haven't found a way to move a tab to the left or right split pane that I can rebind easily"
There is an action for it named "Move To Opposite Group", you can add a keyboard shortcut to it via `File | Settings | Keymap`.
"Would be great to set a lock or something on the unreal engine files"
This is a good idea, we've added a new feature request for it: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-45606. Perhaps you can set a read-only flag to the engine files? In this case Rider will show a warning popup when you try to edit it.
"it would be great if I could star the configurations I actually cared about and could hide the rest"
Unfortunately, it's not possible in IntelliJ-based IDEs. Here is a feature request: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-170851. Please note that you can group run configurations to folders.
"Would be great if Goto would support blueprints also"
Could you please elaborate on that? We already have "go to usages" for uproperties and "go to derived blueprints" for uclasses. Go to for UFUNCTION calls and definitions in Blueprints is in our Roadmap.