[pedevel] Re: Printing
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: pedevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:11:28 +0200
On 2008-04-10 at 12:31:24 [+0200], Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Rainer Riedl wrote:
> > > be implemented by having one view (PText) per split-pane. Eddie does it
> > > this way and that makes it possible to cater for more than two views,
> > > too [not that I have many uses for that, though ;-)].
> >
> > Hmm, I have. Sometimes I copy some pieces of code to the place I work at
> > the moment and the I have to lookup another piece of code. At the moment
> > that means use one split-pane for searching and then I have to find the
> > previous part again. Sometimes timeconsuming
>
> IMHO, a better feature alltogether for this thing would be "bookmarks". The
> bookmark should probably be smart and remember not only offset in the file,
> but also context, so it follows the passage along. I wouldn't remove
> splitting though, since it can be nice to see two passages at once.
> However, to jump forth and back between two or more passages, I think
> bookmarks are more to the point and probably easier to implement as well.
I personally never liked the split approach. When splitting I would
obviously get only half the visible area for each of the views, which is
pretty annoying, since I set the window size to what it is not for no
reason. Also, I'm fan of the 80 colums limit, which means I have lots of
horizontal space on the screen, but a vertical split uses none of it.
I'd much rather be able to simply open the same document in another window.
Oliver's refactoring proposal didn't say so explicitly, but I guess he meant
to imply it, obviously the model should be separated from the views and
controllers. I.e. we would have a PTextModel (or maybe just PText, if
preferred), which would be shared between the windows, and a
PTextSelectionModel, as well as view/editor and controller components, which
would not be shared.
Regarding bookmarks respectively cursor history, the one in Eclipse works
pretty well, I think.
CU, Ingo
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