Hi Paul,


On Tue, 6 May 2003 00:12:36 +0100, Paul Chapman <paul at igblan.com> wrote:

> Just a quickie: I'm used to being offered any symbols which occur in a 
> method as candidates for selectors when asking for senders or 
> implementors.  Squeak doesn't seem to list symbols in the popup menus.  
> Am I missing a Preference, or is there some other simple way to add this 
> behaviour?
>
> (I'm happy to hack the code myself if I have to. :)
>
> Cheers, Paul
>
>
I think this is intended behavior.
The magic seems to be going on in StringHolder>>selectMessageAndEvaluate:
where CompiledMethod>>messages is called.
You could ask for it's literals and then collect: all the symbols contained
in the answer instead.
like:
method literals collect:[:each| each isSymbol]
Note to first file in the little #isSymbol fix that appeared on the list 
not too long ago.


HTH,
Torge

P.S.: You should make this a preference, though. Or you could sort the real 
message
sends before the symbols and divide the choices by a line.
P.P.S.: I found another peculiarity while chasing this. Look at the choices 
you're given
if you hit one of these buttons in CodeHolder>>getSelectorAndSendQuery:to:

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