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
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:29:46 -0400, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
Would the Symbol list in the Sidebar be more useful if it weren't sorted?
IMO no. I love it as it behaves at the moment and IMO a list sorted by names of items is more useful.
On the other hand, I agree sometimes it would be nice if the list would be sorted by appearance of the items. So, I just added two menu items to the symbol list popup menu to change the sorting method. I don't want to work more on this topic because I just like the current behaviour. Maybe Nick or anyone else want to improve it if there is any need.
Regards, Enrico