[Geany] feature suggestion: jump

[Gordon Wrigley]

In a fullscreen window the symbols list fits about 50 items on screen.

I'm not sure how things are in other domains, but I'm an embedded C
programmer by trade and it's not at all uncommon to see files with a couple
of hundred symbols in them.

I often find myself hunting up and down the list thinking "there is a
function for this, what was it called?? it had event in it's name..."

On my previous editor I hacked the symbol list plugin I was using to have a
filter at the bottom of which worked ok, but the interface was never as easy
to work with as the jump in xmms.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Ben West <mrgenixus at gmail.com> wrote:

> I honestly don't see the point of this..., the symbols list already adds
> this functionality.  if there are are enough symbols in the symbols list to
> warrant this, you're probably doing something wrong. Also, if the reason
> this has been suggested is becuase you want an esy way to find the
> declaration of an instance, you can right-click on any instance and "jump"
> (as you put it) to the declaration.  just my $.02us
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Gordon Wrigley <gordon.wrigley at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I have a feature suggestion I'd like to make.
>>
>> The easiest way to explain this is probably just to point at an example of
>> a similar thing in a different application.
>> In most winamp style mp3 players when you press the j key it brings up the
>> jump dialog, this dialog provides a dynamic search of all the files in the
>> current playlist and allows you to instantly jump to any of them.
>> My suggestion is that Geany have a similar mechanism for searching and
>> jumping to symbols in the current file.
>>
>> This is not something I've seen in any other editor, but I think it could
>> be very handy.
>>
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