>1. Search ability. FoxPro limits your scope SO much. VB allows great flexibility. i.e. selected text, current procedure, current module, whole project that last one is the real bite for me in FP as I am maintaining a lot of code I did not write which is sometimes organized by Satan to torment me.

The only thing I see missing from VFP's search ability is the ability to search the entire project. But since the project files are open source, it makes it easy to do this yourself, and there are several freeware tools that do just this. My SearchString does, you can get it here from the files section.

> 2. The actual layout of the source I would like to have the option to see everything at once or one method at a time (VB) as opposed to being restricted to single method view. (Maybe this is a by product of whatever causes the search limits.

I think that your tendency to want this is a leftover from being used to a product without containership. I came to VFP from VB as well, and wished I had this, but once I got used to VFP, I never wanted it again. I don't think this is a deficiency, just a difference in the two environments.

> 3. Some of the VB bells and whistles from VB would be well received FP I feel. The capitalization of prototyped variables is persistent in VB. The auto-complete is very nice.

Auto-complete is nice indeed- we're supposed to be getting it in the next version, and what we're getting is much better than even VB's: the syntax completion is table driven, so you can customize it.

> 6. Stepping through VB code is an absolute dream. You can make code changes right there in the debug window on the fly!!! This is one thing VB has right. If you can do this in FP I really need to know how.

I don't think that you can, but I wish we could too. Maybe in VFP 7...