[Geany] navigate forward and back

[Enrico Tröger]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 18:27:03 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 9/9/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 14:56:19 -0400, "John Gabriele"
> > <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > What exactly do "Navigate forward a location" and "Navigate back a
> > > location" do?
> >
> > You are in file A and click on "Go to Tag Definition". Then Geany
> > switches to the file(if open) where the current tag is defined. If
> > you now easily get back to your start point, you "Navigate back a
> > location". This works also for symbol list items.
> > This feature was added by a patch by Dave Moore and it is especially
> > useful when exploring foreign code where you usually jump between
> > functions and declarations.
> 
> Excellent feature! Thanks for the explanation.
> 
> > > The docs mention a "navigation history". What does that mean?
> > I tried to describe it a bit in the docs(SVN r1864, [1]). But I'm
> > not sure whether it sounds good and is well explained. Maybe
> > someone wants to improve it ;-).
> 
> Good job. What you have there makes sense: the crux is that it is
> activated only when navigating using tags and also when using the
> symbol list tab with the mouse.
Well, it is work in progress. There will be probably more actions which
are stored in the history.

> The only quirkiness I notice is:
> 
> 1. When you change to a different tab, the initial position of the
> cursor in that document is recorded as one of the navigation points.
> This may possibly be a feature though.
In doubt, it is feature ;-).
To be serious: I'm not sure what you mean. You get an history item when
switching between file tabs?

> 2. When navigating forward and back, the items in the symbol list tab
> don't highlight to correspond where the cursor goes.
Yes. This was requested some time ago. But until now, nobody
implemented it. IMO, it is not that necessary. It's more or less only
eye-candy but (probably) requires several changes in the code.

Regards,
Enrico

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