[Geany-devel] narrowing feature in Geany?

[Johann SAUNIER]

That's not a bad idea, but what I would prefer is to highlight the function
name in the symbols tab, corresponding to the function the cursor is in. But
that would be another feature ...


2010/10/29 Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com>

> Dear devels
> What would you think about implementing a 'narrowing' feature in Geany?
>
> Currently, the functions that are longer than a screen are very hard
> to track with simple scrolling. One thing that helps is matching
> braces, but only to a degree. Even if you highlight the braces by
> placing the cursor on one of the two, you may still need to start
> searching for the end of the function, and you may still easily miss
> it. (I think there is a binding that allows to go to the second brace
> directly, but that's still not it.)
>
> Another way to deal with this would be to add a 'narrowing' option.
> I've first heard of this on the LyX list [1], with a reference to the
> commercial EmEditor [2] (scroll to 'narrowing' to see some
> screenshots). For example, Geany could narrow down---keep the needed
> part in the usual background but grey-out all the rest---when placing
> the mouse on braces. (Or, this could be provided as a c-menu item when
> the cursor is on the bracing. Alternatively, the narrowing mode could
> be activated after selecting several lines and clicking on a menu
> item.) Whichever the implementation, this feature can be very helpful
> to improve workflow and reduce the mental workload necessary to
> inspect/edit specific parts of the code.
>
> Do you think this would make sense for Geany? Regards
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg80540.html
> [2] http://www.emeditor.com/modules/feature1/rewrite/tc_35.html
>
>
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