On 28 February 2013 19:15, David Corking <lists at dcorking.com> wrote:
> Frank Shearar wrote:
>
>> What does "reusable" mean here? If you mean that navigating to
>> something doesn't spawn a whole new window, then we _sometimes_ have
>> reusable browsers. For instance, in a Browser, selecting a class name
>> and pressing <alt>-<shift>-b will, within the same Browser, jump to
>> the new class.
>
> Yes - I mean "don't spawn a new window". I wasn't aware of that hotkey.
>
> Other nice features of the message list in Moshi are forward and back
> buttons, a browseable history, and a 'reusable' toggle button, to make
> it spawn a new message list without learning a hot key. (It is the
> forward and back buttons I recognise from Newspeak and Amber.)

It needs to be a bit more exposed, but there's also a "recently
visited" option in the Browser's leftmost pane. I'd like to extend
that list a bit so that it takes you back to the class you recently
viewed and show you the _method_ you last viewed in that class. Or
maybe just rip out the class thing entirely and store recently viewed
methods instead. Eh, but sometimes you'll have visited the class
comment, or class/metaclass definition...

frank

> Thanks Herbert and Frank for explaining how to uncover the features
> for class and message implementor.
>
> Herbert wrote:
>> to get this behaviour the Preference "trace messages" needs to be
>> enabled. checking... Right now this only works for implementors,
>
> I set the preference and still get a new message list for each
> implementor I select (trunk 4.5  #12400) when I click the implementors
> button - but the list _is_  reused on cmd-m. A win for the keyboard.
> Thanks again.
>
> Have fun! David
>