Re: [Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-03 Thread stéphane ducasse
On 2 juil. 06, at 00:42, itsme213 wrote: Is there an easy way, within squeak itself, to open a text editor on an entire class and simply edit the file and save the entire file (equivalently, file-in the string-buffer). I find I am quicker with this than all the mousing around, specially

Re: [Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-03 Thread Mark Aufflick
I have been pondering the same sorts of things, being something of an emacs junky. Today I discovered SVI, which implements vi-like or emacs-like key bindings for many editor panes (such as the class browser, work space). I am finding it a real boon. It doesn't change the way you interact with

Re: [Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-03 Thread itsme213
to shuffle around bits of text or jump from one window frame to another using familiar keyboard commands - well for me it's like coming to the surface of the water and being able to breathe again ;) This sounds like manna from heaven ... I tried loading SVI and got: This package depends on the

Re: [Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 02.07.2006 um 00:42 schrieb itsme213: Is there an easy way, within squeak itself, to open a text editor on an entire class and simply edit the file and save the entire file (equivalently, file-in the string-buffer). I find I am quicker with this than all the mousing around, specially

Re: [Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-02 Thread itsme213
The class browser is a view onto the live class object, even though it appears to be a categorizing text editor. It's not. This is starting to sink in :-) Quite a nice change, and not too difficult, except for a wide-scale re-training of muscle memory on keyboard shortcuts.

Re: [Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-02 Thread Kyle Hamilton
You have just described the problems with WebDAV... but the WebDAV group found a way to deal with the limitations. Which even works well with revision management systems. (There is a DAV server available in SqueakMap, though I haven't yet checked to see if it can handle sending the entire

[Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-01 Thread itsme213
Is there an easy way, within squeak itself, to open a text editor on an entire class and simply edit the file and save the entire file (equivalently, file-in the string-buffer). I find I am quicker with this than all the mousing around, specially when making a new class. I know I can file-out