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I was just reading through what will be available
in the next Milestone build and noticed that you were going to re-implement the
editor drop down list again for easier editor navigation. I used this feature
frequently when it was available in the 2.0 release but found that it still had
limitations of it's own when there were many open editors.
This being my first post here I know this is
rather presumptuous of me but would like to suggest that you implement the
improved editor navigation as a view instead of a drop down. I did this for
myself already by ripping a bunch of code out of the View Open Editors
window and cannot begin to tell you how indispensable it is to myself and my
fellow colleagues on a daily basis.
There are also many additional pros to implementing
the navigation as a view then as a drop down. Sorting, multiple editor
select for saving and closing editors. The ability to show open editors from all
open windows. Extension points for adding additional actions to selected editors
in the list such as updating/committing to cvs. I really honestly believe
that if you were to implement the navigation in the way that I suggest you will
have a much more powerful extension to the platform then just simply switching
between open editors that a drop down would give you.
Rob Dingwell
MITRE Corp.
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