>>>>What is it that you could put in a dev tool to benefit a user?
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>>>If a feature does not in some way benefit the user, then it probably shouldn't be in the dev tool.
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>>That depends on perspective...development tool improvements can speed up development time, which in turn can benefit the user...
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>Exactly. Other features might be more apparent like the ability to seamlessly work with MS Office, launch a browser, display a JPG.

Sure, that's true enough. But what about, for example, multi-line grid column headers, much more 'functionality' for Grids to name a couple that I've seen come up often.
Then there's those less frequent things like VFP-VFP cursors, DBC/DBF support by ADO.

These are a few from what likely is a very long list.

Cheers,

Jim N