Would the Symbol list in the Sidebar be more useful if it weren't sorted?
For example, I'm looking at a source file containing a multiple
classes, each with its own methods and variables. Seems like it would
be much more useful to actually see them listed in the symbol list *as
they appear in the file*, rather than all blended together,
homogenized, and alphabetized. Especially now that we have nice icons
to the left of the name to tell us what the name represents.
That is, instead of seeing:
Classes
Foo
Bar
Baz
Methods
foo
foo
bar1
bar2
zed
Variables
a1
a1
a2
bee
we'd see
Baz
zed
a1
a2
Foo
foo
a1
Bar
foo
bar1
bar2
As it is now, to use the Symbol list, I need to already know the name
of what I'm looking for. But if I had the name already in-mind, it's
usually just faster to do an incremental search than to take my hands
off the keyboard. The value of the Symbol list, IMO, is to give me an
overview of the file I'm looking at -- like a google map where I can
zoom out, see the file from 10000 m, and then zoom back in (by
clicking one of the symbols).
---John