In Nautilus, unlike old Browser it now works for multiple keywords, so things are improving.
Mm, I think it was Dan Ingalls who made browsing senders/implementors of multi-argument keyword messages in the code pane working since the 1990's. It works with even gross effort -- in the attached picture I made a sloppy selection of #objectWithOid:ifFound:ifAbsent and press Command+M to get implementors in spite of all of the intermediate code it knows what I wanted.
The main drawback from usability point of view: it is an implicit feature, invisible to newbie and other out of the context.
I was using Squeak for more than 5 years when someone told me about it -- Once discovered, it's great, productivity has been a bit higher ever since. People should know about it if they don't already..
Though in term of number of actions necessary to reach information, I'm not sure it's a clear win. There's a balance between simplicity and efficiency. Isn't it also a step backward in promotion of keyboard navigation over mouse navigation?
Nicolas
Open an entry to be sure it's not lost in the mailing list, and as soon as I can, I will see to add a setting for this :) (right now I am more in a "bugs fix" phase that "add new features" one ^^)
Ben
On May 12, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
Tried from Nautilus:
Why when asking 'implementors of ' in the method menu, I only got the implementor of this method.
Am I doing something wrong?
Look like the browser need a lot of love.
Hilaire
-- Dr. Geo -- http://www.drgeo.eu
