[squeak-dev] Text editor menu simplified

Jakob Reschke jakres+squeak at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 21:34:11 UTC 2023


I like this compromise!

The edit menu reminds me that Squeak does not have anything like a main
menu in applications or tools (neither at the top of the window itself like
under Windows, nor at the top of the screen like under macOS).


Am Do., 26. Jan. 2023 um 20:02 Uhr schrieb Stephen Travis Pope <
stephen at heaveneverywhere.com>:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Here’s another attempt at compromise:
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> and the code
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> stp
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> Stephen Travis Pope    Ojai, California, USA
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>      http://HeavenEverywhere.com
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> On Jan 26, 2023, at 5:24 AM, Jaromir Matas <mail at jaromir.net> wrote:
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> Hi,
> Something like this?
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> I’ve copied the important items from the submenus to the top rather then
> “moving” them up. Btw the printer icon next to ‘print-it’ is imo quite
> confusing :)
>
> > Does your keyboard not have a CTRL key?
>
> I tend use my left hand to support my chin while browsing the code (which
> is most of the time) :)
>
> --
> *Jaromír Matas*
>
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> *From: *Stephen Travis Pope <stephen at heaveneverywhere.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, January 26, 2023 0:06
> *To: *The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [squeak-dev] Text editor menu simplified
>
>
> I invite others to send out screen shots and code for other options for
> the text/code editor menus.
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> stp
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> Stephen Travis Pope    Ojai, California, USA
>     <3061F330B4E14223813BDD0D2694C9C2.png>
>      http://HeavenEverywhere.com <http://heaveneverywhere.com/>
>      http://FASTLabInc.com <http://fastlabinc.com/>
>      https://vimeo.com/user19434036/videos
>      http://heaveneverywhere.com/Reflections
>
>
>
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> On Jan 25, 2023, at 12:31 PM, Jakob Reschke <jakres+squeak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Am Mi., 25. Jan. 2023 um 16:07 Uhr schrieb Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>:
>
> Hi
>
>
> > On 25. Jan 2023, at 15:58, Stephen Travis Pope <
> stephen at heaveneverywhere.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Obviously, my text editor menu proposal is the extreme case, and we are
> free to adopt a compromise, such as putting cut/copy/paste and
> doIt/printIt/inspectIt in the top-level menu.
> >
> > My reasoning was that a menu with 27 items at the top level (starting
> with fonts and projects) needed to rearranged.
>
> No objection to this goal :D
>
>
> +1, especially with regards to the "fonts and projects" remark. ;-)
>
> I too would like the cut/copy/paste/do/debug/inspect/explore to remain at
> the top level, possibly also find/replace/undo/redo. Actually I would also
> prefer senders/implementors/references at the top level, at least in
> CodeHolders and related models.
>
> But style, project links, copy as html, show bytecodes... not so much.
> Button for it, tally and spy could also be stashed in a submenu in
> my opinion.
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