[Geany] feature suggestion: jump

[Ben West]

I believe I stand corrected -- clearly not wrong just f'd up.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Gordon Wrigley <gordon.wrigley at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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