[squeak-dev] Visual Studio plugins starting to catch on

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 11:16:21 UTC 2014


On 31 August 2014 18:02, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://codeconnect.io/ shows someone editing code displayed on a
>> function-by-function basis (sound familiar), with senders-of the
>> currently displayed function/method automatically displayed in a
>> column to the right.
>>
>> That seems rather familiar, and a semi-straightforward thing to
>> implement using our current browsers, right?
>
> Surely, but you can get a close variation now.
>
>     Preferences editAnnotations  "<---- doIt"
>
> Then drag sendersCount to left side.  Click "Apply".
>
> I know this isn't the actual list of senders itself, but would you
> really want a whole 'nother pane constanly showing senders instead of
> only on-demand?  For me, I think it would be too much noise to have on
> all the time..

That's kind've the main point of the exercise: removing the need to
have to reach out for context, instead of having the context be
ambiently available, for want of a better phrase.

frank


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