On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Puneet Lakhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I use an eclipse plugin called Mylyn [1]. Mylyn allows me to group my work > into tasks (integrates with things like Bugzilla, trac etc.)[2]. The best > thing that Mylyn provides is that it creates separate contexts for each of > these tasks. The context influences what I see in a particular eclipse > view. > So for example, in the file explorer view in eclipse, I only see files that > I have changed while working in this context. Additionally it also > influences the auto suggest options. > In all honesty, I would find that irritating at best. If I want to open a file in my editor of choice, for example, all I do is press Ctrl-Alt-O and type a few characters of the file I'm searching for. Almost instantaneously I'm shown a list of files within the current directory that match the pattern and I just pick one (it's usually at the top) to edit. I find this to be much faster than browsing a file tree. > > The context feature works great when you have to frequenly switch between > tasks. It allows you to get back into the mode for solving a particular > task. > > I was wondering if something similar for the shell would be useful. It > could > for example alter the history to only have the commands that you used in > the > context of working on a paritcular task. It could maybe even set up env > accordingly. > [snip] How about multiplexing the terminal? Use screen for that. Each 'screen' acts as a context. HTH. -- Cheers, Yesudeep Mangalapilly | येसुदीप मंगलािपल्ली GnuPG: 0x79E237CB | IRC: jburd Do NOT send me chain forwards. I will ignore you. Do NOT send me Microsoft Word documents. I will bite. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html I use free and open source software. http://www.gnu.org/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
