[Geany-devel] editor current word menu (was Re: SF.net SVN: geany:[2787] trunk)

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Mon Jul 21 12:48:39 UTC 2008


On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:53:04 +0100, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:24:01 +0200
> Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:18:05 +0000, ntrel at users.sourceforge.net
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Revision: 2787
> > >           http://geany.svn.sourceforge.net/geany/?rev=2787&view=rev
> > > Author:   ntrel
> > > Date:     2008-07-17 17:17:51 +0000 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008)
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > -----------
> > > Move editor popup menu current word items to submenu.
> > 
> > This was a nice idea but after using it for two days it comes very
> > unhandy, IMO.
> > I use especially Goto Definition and Find usage very often as it's
> > just convenient but with the new submenu they got hard to reach.
> > 
> > Can anyone confirm this?
> 
> Personally I just use keybindings. I thought it was good to group all

Me not, not for Find usage and Goto Tag Defintion.

> the current word items together to make it clearer what they do, and
> to make the menu tidier. Also a small thing - it makes it much easier
> to avoid mnemonic conflicts.
> 
> Another thing I had in mind when doing this, is that often users don't
> realise there are keybindings for things that have no menu item. So
> having sub-menus for the popup menu means we can add many more menu
> items, and users can easily discover that there are more commands
> Geany supports.

This would be good for new users to discover some of the (currently) not
so obvious features but I don't see a real advantage in this when we at
the same time make it more difficult to use the whole editor popup
menu. At least I personally don't like submenus in the editor popup
menu. They are fine in the main menubar but the editor menu should
stay clean and not so bloated.

> e.g. There's a feature request for a 'Go to matching bracket' menu.
> This could be:
> Go to
> ->Line
> ->Matching Bracket
> ->Tag Definition?
> ->Tag Declaration?

Same problem as above.
But it's probably fine to add some more menu item to the Edit menu (in
the menubar).

> > OTOH,  I agree it's good to shorten this menu a little bit or at
> > least to not bloat it more.
> > Maybe we could remove or move the "Insert [Date|Comments|Includes]"
> > menu items into the Format submenu.
> 
> Well, insertion is not really formatting IMO.

Right, it was just an idea...


Anyone else with a statement out there?

Regards,
Enrico

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