Em 11/12/2009 05:44, Lukas Renggli < renggli@gmail.com > escreveu:
[snip] Yeah, I agree on all ;-)
will with every next hit on left arrow select a larger block of code. So if my cursor is on a message send, it will first select the message send, next the receiver and the message send, next: if this was a nested, select the part out of that, and so forth. This is very handy if you for instance want to do a extract method refactoring on some part of the code. Just quickly select it using this Alt-Shift selection and extract it. That's a cool idea. I will add it to the refactoring tools. +1
- Which brings me to the refactoring shortcuts, which I'm missing the most. * The most important one is rename. In Eclipse if I select a field, a temporary var, a message, a class, anything that can be renamed; I can always hit Alt-Shift-R to rename it. I don't have to go into a menu, refactor class, or refactor method, or refactor source with the mouse to select rename. Just click on it, hit the shortcut, type the new name and hit Enter. The problem is that Pharo already binds all possible keyboard shortcuts to something, which leaves no space for other tools like the refactoring engine.
I think we could have some leeway if we give up to the present double mapping of some short cuts that accept the Alt and Cmd prefixes to do the same thing (at least in Windows is worse than that because sometimes this double mapping works sometimes does not.
How are experienced Smalltalkers feeling about this? Safara was an attempt to implement a replacement for the current text editor, where nothing was hardcoded but everything could be configured by the tool (highlighting, completing, shortcuts, ...). Unfortunately this project never made it into a useable state. Writing a text editor is difficult.
Besides, I _think_ putting a completely reconfigurable environment in Pharo's toolset will create the anxiety of the "paradox of choice" without bringing too much added value. We already have lot of 'fun' having do spread remarks all over the documentation about the appeareance of the tools and still have a half baked solution for the naming of mouse buttons, imagine the added complexity of having to all the time have to put remarks on keyboard shorcuts!!