[Geany] small usability suggestion

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:15:43 +0200, Harold Aling <h.aling at home.nl>
wrote:

> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:27:59 +0100, Nick Treleaven
> > <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >> On 07/19/2007 03:47:42 PM, Harold Aling wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:38:46 +0200, "Mateusz Mucha"
> >>> <muszek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > As I'm not an experienced programmer and really lazy on top of
> >>> > that,
> >>> I
> >>> > tend to jump to other areas of code quite often.  Example:  I
> >>> > edit line 199 at the moment, but want/need to take a look at
> >>> > destroy_earth() function, copy two lines of code and jump back
> >>> > to where I was straight away.
> >>> >
> >>> > It would be cool if there was some keyword combo or an icon to
> >>> > move
> >>> me
> >>> > back to where I was before I used the "functions browser" on the
> >>> left
> >>> > for the last time (and perhaps the last time before that if the
> >>> combo
> >>> > is used twice").  It should ignore jumps achieved by using
> >>> > arrows
> >>> and
> >>> > pgup/pgdn.
> >>> >
> >>> > Or perhaps a similar feature is impremented alredy?
> >>> 
> >>> I've exactly the same request!
> >>> 
> >>> What if the "Symbol sidebar" would add the cursor location to the
> >>> back/forward history before moving focus to the selected
> >>> function/location in the sidebar? Then you would be able to press
> >>> 'back' to return to the previous position.
> >>> 
> >> This has recently been added to SVN ;-)
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Nick
> >
> 
> Nick,
> 
> The back button only remembers the line number, not the exact cursor
> location.
> 
> Can this be added?
It can ;-) but one has to do it. I also would like it to store the
cursor position instead of only the line number. Anyway, in some cases
it isn't possible because there is no information about the cursor
available but if we should use it.
Maybe I'll work on it soon.

Regards,
Enrico

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