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

[Bogdan Gheorghe <gheorghe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

cdt-patch-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/25/2003 10:21:46
AM:

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> > Hi Alain -
> > 
> > I put in an variant of navigation - made the best with what we
have at the 
> > moment. The way it currently works is: 
> >  
> > 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
> > 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > 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.
> 

OK - raise a bug on me and I'll put in "F3"...

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