I hope you've seen CodeBubbles[0]...

Wouldn't it be better something like that? If you want to see more
than one method (understandable situation), you open multiple "method
views" and that's it. Seeing a whole class as a file doesn't solve
much of the problem: nothing guarantees the methods you want to see
are toghether in "the file", and nothing guarantees the methods belong
to the same class...


Maybe just decoupling the method pane from the rest of the browser
(and providing some popping-out mechanism to have multiple method
panes at the same time) could help?


[0] http://www.andrewbragdon.com/codebubbles_site.asp

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:43 PM, St�phane Ducasse
<stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
> good idea!
>
> Stef
>
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Frank Shearar wrote:
>
>> Well, me! One thing that would make my life considerably easier is a
>> MessageSet-like browser that "flattened" the methods, so they were
>> displayed one above the other - simulating a text file, in other
>> words. So many times I want to look at how a set of classes implement
>> some method.
>
>