[Gambas-user] PING > Benoit - GUI Programming ProductivityFeature Request

[Fabien Bodard]

so i'll add a todo note :)... i've suggested already this idea there
is more than 2 year.. maybe it can be

2009/11/26  <nospam.nospam.nospam at ...626...>:
> Fabien Bodard wrote:
>> shift F2 to go to the previous position
>>
>> F2 to get the function code or help about the function
>
> I know about that feature, which is not bookmarks, nor even a facsimile of
> bookmarks. The go back function is very limited and highly unproductive.
>
>> I don't know were it is documented lol
>
> 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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