On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
Hi,
There are recurring questions about GTSpotter, along the lines of:
why Spotter does not work well for 95% of the cases - implement - send - class - class refs?
This is in the latest #50591, BTW.
Starting with the 3rd one, searching for classes, that has been working well since day one and has benefited from general improvements.
'zncl' gives me ZnClient immediately.
Yes, you have to learn how to dive into a result to expand it, but that is not often needed in this case.
'readstream', then first arrow (or cmd-shit-right), then 'co' gives me ZnCodePointReadStream and ZnEncodeReadStream.
In both cases, just typing enter browses the class, which is what I want.
Both implementers and senders do work well today, you just have to figure out how (learnability is an issue, but not everything can be obvious in this world).
'get: #i' but also, 'get:' + cmd-m gives you all implementors of #get: and spotter automatically expands from a limited set of 5 matches to 100
It does not here. Here, using 50594, doing 'get: +i' does not give me all implementors of #get: as you said, but all the implementors MATCHING #get:. In fact, those with #get: (exactly) are not even sorted on top. See attached screenshot.
Enable preview (click outer arrow, or cmd-p) and you see the implementors right there
Now, dive in (first arrow or cmd-shit-right), and type 'zn' and I can see ZnClient>>#get:
Type enter to open the method in a browser
Similar approach for senders, using #s and cmd-n
'join: #s'but also, 'join:' + cmd-n gives you all senders of #join: and spotter automatically expands
Enable preview (click outer arrow, or cmd-p) and you see the implementors right there
Now, dive in (first arrow or cmd-shit-right), and type 'zn' and I can see ZnDefaultServerDelegate>>#welcomePageCss
Type enter to open the method in a browser
Class references, I don't know how to do that, but I can't see why it would not fit and it would be a good addition.
Spotter adds to the other ways of doing these 4 actions, the old one still work, as does command-click (one of my favourites).
Sven
PS: I don't wan to narrow down the discussion to just these 4 cases, Spotter and GT are about way more than just this, you can search for many, many things (for example, type 'json' and you can install 3 packages from the catalog), and you can extend these tools yourself. I also know that things must improve further.
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