[squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Implementors of...

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Tue May 15 23:55:43 UTC 2012


> In Nautilus, unlike old Browser it now works for multiple keywords, so
> things are improving.

Mm, I think it was Dan Ingalls who made browsing senders/implementors
of multi-argument keyword messages in the code pane working since the
1990's.

It works with even gross effort -- in the attached picture I made a
sloppy selection of #objectWithOid:ifFound:ifAbsent and press
Command+M to get implementors in spite of all of the intermediate code
it knows what I wanted.

> The main drawback from usability point of view: it is an implicit
> feature, invisible to newbie and other out of the context.

I was using Squeak for more than 5 years when someone told me about it
-- Once discovered, it's great, productivity has been a bit higher
ever since.  People should know about it if they don't already..



> Though in term of number of actions necessary to reach information,
> I'm not sure it's a clear win.
> There's a balance between simplicity and efficiency.
> Isn't it also a step backward in promotion of keyboard navigation over
> mouse navigation?
>
> Nicolas
>
>>
>> Open an entry to be sure it's not lost in the mailing list, and as soon as I can, I will see to add a setting for this :)
>> (right now I am more in a "bugs fix" phase that "add new features" one ^^)
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 12, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
>>
>>> Tried from Nautilus:
>>>
>>> Why when asking 'implementors of ' in the method menu, I only got the
>>> implementor of this method.
>>>
>>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>>
>>> Look like the browser need a lot of love.
>>>
>>> Hilaire
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Geo -- http://www.drgeo.eu
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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