Hi Chris,


nice issue! I agree this would be an improvement in debugging scenarios.


However, when I press Shift + ArrowRight to extend the selection, I would indeed expect that the cursor is scrolled into view. I think we would need to distinguish between "machinal selection" and "selection by user."

And shouldn't we respect the selection orientation here (i.e., which of markIndex and pointIndex is larger - see TextEditor >> #exchange)?

But I would rather dislike a preference, imho we should make it dependent on the origin of the selection (machine vs. user) to achieve the best convenience.

Best,
Christoph
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Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. Januar 2020 03:30:48
An: squeak dev
Betreff: [squeak-dev] stepping in small panes

Hi all,

When debugging on a small screen and a larger font, block expressions can easily overrun the size of the text pane.  Currently when stepping, selecting a stack frame, clicking Where -- anything that changes the text selection, it positions you to the bottom.

[show-bottom-sel.png]

Unfortunately, this makes debugging cumbersome, because I need to see the beginning of the selection instead of the end, to know what I'm stepping through.

[show-top-sel.png]

I use soft wrap, so don't face any issue along the horizontal dimension, but for the same principle, Morphic-cmm.1614 treats it similarly.

Before:
[show-right-sel.png]     VS
[show-left-sel.png]

What do you think?  Preference-worthy?

Best,
  Chris
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