Excellent! This goes in the direction of Alfred or Quicksilver. I worked on a design (no implementation yet) that goes in the same direction. I think we definitely need to get more in this direction, and that we should make it easy for people to hook their own matchers. For example, when I start something with / or ./ I would like to inspect the file with that name.
Doru On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > I had this idea: > > > https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/13128/Use-Spotlight-to-quickly-evaluate-and-inspect-short-expressions > > now you can do > > <shift-Enter>:42<Enter> > > to inspect the magic number 42 > > <shift-Enter>:1500*1.25<Enter> > > to quickly compute your 25% raise > > <shift-Enter>:Float pi<Enter> > > to see how many decimals you still remember > > <shift-Enter>:ZnClient new get: 'http://zn.stfx.eu/zn/small.html'<Enter> > > and so on. > > The interaction with the completion menu is not 100% perfect, but pressing > <Space> at the end before <Enter> solves that. > > Feedback ? > > Sven > > PS: I know that many Smalltalk greybeards type everywhere to the same > effect, and that is cool to, but it leaves around dirty windows. Opening a > workspace for a single expression often is overkill. This feature is > totally keyboard driven and very clean. > > PS2: Yes it resembles Emacs' M-: (evaluate-expression), but Pharo is much > cooler, right ;-) > > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
