2010/3/3 Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
> Hi, yes, I did!  And, in fact, I have already used the new preference
> Pragma's in restoring the Auto Indent preference.
>
> Now, the rationale I had heard from Andreas was that *localized*
> preferences, such as Auto Indent or things related to TextEditor, or
> such as the one example you mentioned
> (TextDiffBuilder>>ignoreLineEndings), could be made as Class-vars
> there.
>
> But, in this case, the #traceMessages is a truly global setting.  I
> would be happy to make it a pragma, but I just didn't see a good
> candidate class for this global preference other than "Preferences"
> class itself which, you as you said, we are trying to avoid bloat.
>
> I guess the bloating of Preferences class is independent of whether we
> use a Pragma or not.  If you have suggestions for both issues, I'd be
> happy to follow them..
>
> Thanks,
>  Chris
>

Ah yes I see...
SystemNavigation ?

Nicolas

>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Nicolas Cellier
> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Chris
>>
>> Did you notice new pattern for creating preferences ?
>> We prefer a method annotation (pragme) because it will prevent
>> Preferences to be bloated.
>>
>> like TextDiffBuilder>>ignoreLineEndings
>>        "Answer a boolean telling if line endings differences should be
>> ignored or emphasized"
>>
>>        <preference: 'ignoreLineEndings'
>>                category: 'TextDiff'
>>                description: 'When enabled, source code differences in line endings
>> will be ignored.'
>>                type: #Boolean>
>>        ^IgnoreLineEndings ifNil: [ false ]
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>> 2010/3/3  <commits at source.squeak.org>:
>>> Chris Muller uploaded a new version of System to project The Trunk:
>>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/System-cmm.275.mcz
>>>
>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>
>>> Name: System-cmm.275
>>> Author: cmm
>>> Time: 2 March 2010, 9:48:35.173 pm
>>> UUID: 2f46dbd4-b790-41cc-b8c4-76d1b7eb1b15
>>> Ancestors: System-cmm.274
>>>
>>> Added #traceMessages preference.
>>>
>>> =============== Diff against System-cmm.274 ===============
>>>
>>> Item was added:
>>> + ----- Method: Preferences class>>traceMessages (in category 'standard queries') -----
>>> + traceMessages
>>> +       ^ self
>>> +               valueOfFlag: #traceMessages
>>> +               ifAbsent: [ false ]!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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