On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:45 PM, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
There have been several comments to the effect, "Everything there was pretty cool, but when you searched the documentation âby exampleâ, I literally shouted, âNo way!â, alone here in my office. Thatâs such a brilliant idea."
Maybe we should transfer the Finder>Examples behaviour to GTSpotter and promote it more. (I've not got Pharo with me to check. Maybe I remember some announcement on this, but its not very visible or discoverable). Its filter might be #howto, similar to #i and #s.
I mentioned the idea that Spotter should directly allows one to type examples and get the answer during the Pharo days. And I guess that andrei already implemented it :)
We made an integration of the examples finder for spotter a while back but I do not remember why I did not integrate it and now I cannot seem to find it. We can do it again as it's not that complicated :) The only issue is that compileSilently is not that silent. In spotter we need to permanently compile the query that you enter and compileSilently leaves a trace in the "recent changes" list: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/15314/compileSilently-and-method-history-c... Cheers, Andrei
cheers -ben