On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> My thought was that if you've had to select the method in order to get
> the menu in order to even access the "copy selector" function, then
> that means the selector is already displayed in the bottom text pane,
> and from there it's exactly same number of gestures to copy and paste
> from there as it is to select it from the menu (3 in both cases);
> albeit, with the arguments which maybe you don't want..??


Exactly.  One wants just the selector, not the message pattern.  I'm sick of
editing out the arguments from message patterns, e.g. when I need to mention
a specific method in an email.


>  Sorry, I
> was unclear what use-case you were referring to ("paste it into
> message names"?).
>

The message names tool.  Try world menu->open...->message names


>
> Eliot, if it is perfectly useful to you to only copy the selector then
> I don't want to disrupt that, of course, so I will put it back..
>

I'm not saying don't put in your extension; I'm sure it's useful.  I'm
saying don't break backwards-compatibility.  So you can either make it a
preference or a different function.


>
>  - Chris
>
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > So if I want to copy a selector, e.g. to paste it into message names I
> then
> > have to delete the lass>> part?  Please, can we add a "copy signature"
> > instead of change the semantics of something perfectly useful?
> > Also,isn't "method reference" a better name for aClass>>selector than
> > signature? Signatures typically have arity, return and argument type
> > information .  This is something a little simpler.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:50 PM, <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Chris Muller uploaded a new version of Monticello to project The Trunk:
> >> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Monticello-cmm.400.mcz
> >>
> >> ==================== Summary ====================
> >>
> >> Name: Monticello-cmm.400
> >> Author: cmm
> >> Time: 19 September 2010, 4:50:02.156 pm
> >> UUID: 815ed4bb-b5b4-420c-9639-018beb254ae9
> >> Ancestors: Monticello-bf.399
> >>
> >> Change "copy selector" to copy the signature of the method to the
> >> clipboard, not just the selector.
> >>
> >> =============== Diff against Monticello-bf.399 ===============
> >>
> >> Item was changed:
> >>  ----- Method: MCCodeTool>>copySelector (in category 'menus') -----
> >>  copySelector
> >>        "Copy the selected selector to the clipboard"
> >> +       self selectedMessageName ifNotNilDo:
> >> +               [ : selector | Clipboard clipboardText:
> >> +                       (self selectedClassOrMetaClass
> >> +                               ifNil: [ selector asString ]
> >> +                               ifNotNilDo: [ : cls | (cls >> selector)
> >> signature ]) ]!
> >> -
> >> -       | selector |
> >> -       (selector := self selectedMessageName) ifNotNil:
> >> -               [Clipboard clipboardText: selector asString]!
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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