On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:19:38 +0100, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:32:38 +0200 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:06:33 +0100, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
Maybe people don't like this idea, but if we had notebook tab switching forward/back in a history of most recently used documents, it would be completely unnecessary to have code navigation also switch between documents. This would actually give the user more control over where they want to switch to, as often the user works mainly on a single file and switches to other tabs to check something.
But code navigation is especially useful and a very convenient feature when browsing (foreign) code where you often 'jump' between functions calls and the function definitions which are scattered over serveral source files. I think in this case a document-based code navigation is more hindering than helping.
In that case you would use the MRU documents switching.
I'm still not really convinced, maybe I don't imagine it well enough. When using MRU documents switching, I still need to use both features: Ctrl-Tab to switch between documents and code navigation back/forward to navigate inside _one_ document and I need to remember where which code was. Hmm, maybe I'm missing something or imagine it too complicated. And I'm also not that against it as it might sound, just worried.
Regards, Enrico