[Gambas-user] PING > Benoit - GUI Programming Productivity Feature Request

[Fabien Bodard]

shift F2 to go to the previous position

F2 to get the function code or help about the function

I don't know were it is documented lol

2009/11/23  <nospam.nospam.nospam at ...626...>:
> Benoit,
>
> The Gambas programming environment would offer a major productivity boost to
> developers if code Bookmarks were supported in the text editor.
>
> Using my own situation as an example, where I am porting a Windows app that
> has 300+ classes and close to 120,000 lines of code, it is next to
> impossible to find related code when one is making a significant change.
>
> As an example, I might put a break point in the code and use the debug
> backtrace to walk my way back through the code looking for code parts that
> may be affected by my proposed change. Alternatively I might put an early
> break point in and forward trace the code by using debug stepping. In both
> cases I currently have to put manual comments in that are coded in a way so
> that they can be searched or I have to write down the references then go
> looking for them again when I'm ready to make the change, and that just
> takes up an awful lot of time that could otherwise be avoided by support for
> bookmarks.
>
> Even on a small project, having no support for bookmarks means you can't set
> visual clues in your code, so even when you're trying to find something
> simple you still have to continually scan the code by eye to find the exact
> spot you know was there earlier.
>
> What would it take to convince you to consider implementing such a feature?
>
> Of course, the book marks would need to be saved so that they are available
> the next time the project is opened in the development environment.
>
> Wine? Women? Song? Money? Or commonsense?
>
> :)
>
>
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