> I wonder, then, what it would be like to put the VStudio shell on
> POV-Ray. I've been kind of playing with the isolated shell, and it's
> rather flexible. It would give those of us who are familiar with the IDE
> a means of working with POV-Ray that feels familiar.

I didn't realise it was possible to do this (I mead use the VStudio 
shell for other things). But I always thought that editors have moved on 
since the POV editor was written, and VStudio is pretty good.

Do you need any particular version to do this, I only have the free 
express versions.

> * Being able to use VS2010's templates, and auto-complete suggestions to
> take some of the functionality of the insert menu. kind of like you can
> type sw<tab><tab> and it pops a template in the code, you fill in some
> blanks, and you're done!
>
> * The tooltips and such for parameters, etc.

This would be the most useful for me. Often I know the functionality 
that I want and the object keyword to use, but have forgotten the exact 
wording of the parameters (is it "max_trace" or "max_trace_depth" or 
???). With tooltips you could just type "max" and then you'd get a 
context-sensitive list of valid parameters with "max" in the name.

Would speed up scene development massively IMO.

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