Re: [cdt-patch] Indexer patch - Bug 42685, Bug 43474

["Alain Magloire" <alain@xxxxxxx>]

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> Hi Alain -
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> I put in an variant of navigation - made the best with what we have at the 
> moment. The way it currently works is: 
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> 1) the user selects an element and chooses "Open Declarations" from the 
> context menu
> 2) a search is performed on the index 
> 3) the editor is opened on the search result
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> The only major hitch is that we have no semantic information about the 
> selected element - parser support coming for 2.0 
> or so I've been promised ;) So for now, we do a search on the selected 
> element's name with all types. If only one search 
> result is found then, great, we open up the editor. If more then one 
> instance is found, we pop up a dialog with a list of
> all the results and let the user select which element they want opened. 
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> Is this what you had in mind with F3?
> 

Yes.

That we have now to hilight the function, go to the context menu
and choose the action "Open Declarations" seems tedious and inconsistent.
Especially for folks(like myself) using JDT and CDT at the same time.

F3(like CTRL-Space), seems to be the standard for Navigation.  For
example, start the JavaEditor and hit "F3" on a class/method.

I understand that our navigation capability is incomplete, i.e.
when namespace C++ scope etc ... 

It was this way with the old indexer(CTags), my 0.000002 8-)

Later.