Honestly a better approach would be to just have a feature that will allow us to connect and external python editor to the Gateway.

VS Code

PyCharm

Notepad++

Atom

Sublime

Etc.

variable renaming would be really helpful. Find/Replace is not the same.

Exposing the format of all functions, like the system functions are, would be helpful. Being able to add comments to the function format would be icing on the cake. Also being able to quick-view or jump to a function definition would be helpful.

Could you please include a Replace function? There is Find but not Find/Replace

appreciated

I'm sure there's a reason for this and I'm sure it comes up a lot, but why can't we drill down to just a component when using the "Insert Property Reference" button? Why must we "choose a bound property in the tree"? It is extremely common to set a variable to just a component in the code and then use that variable throughout the code instead of the full reference, yet even in the videos I watch, the script author has to drill all the way down to a bound property and then "back off" the property to get to just the component reference.

I am sorely missing the ability to expand and collapse loops and if statements like I have in Notepad++.

Along with that, it would also be nice to see the tab stops like in NPP when editing Python.

But, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! I like the text coloring better in the current script editor better than the default coloration for Python in NPP.

autocompletion for all packages is really necessary

Please have editor 'clean up' mixed tabs and spaces, rather than flagging an indentation error, or at least have it flag as mixed tabs and spaces, instead of a generic indentation error.