>From: Alexey Zinger <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > [snip] >What's ironic, is that while a typical IDE will let you quickly pop up a > bunch of tabs, each jumping to the relevant line, if you want to see 2 > snippets from one file together, it's tough to do if they're not close > together, if I'm not mistaken (I'm not entirely up to speed on the IDE > state of the art).
Following this discussion I wanted to see if Eclipse (Galileo 3.5.1) would allow this. The closest I found was basically cloning the entire window, with all the menus and window controls, etc, which is quite nasty. Being able to conveniently view multiple snippets of code simultaneously would be pretty handy, but it's incredibly clunky in Eclipse. It's a shame it's not more slick, because the editing is seamless - showing the same code in two windows, editing in the first updates the second without a reload/refresh. If there's a better way I'd love to hear about it. Code Bubbles looks promising, though I wonder how much efficiency is lost by requiring near-constant use of the mouse (if it does require that). Most of the search/navigate capability is there in Eclipse, from the keyboard. Now I'm thinking of my usage of an IDE, viewing multiple areas of code simultaneously is almost a "how did I get by without this" kind of feature. Regards, Graham -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
