What about doing it that way?
<Shift-enter>1500*1.25<Alt-i> ?
Like that, you keep the same shortcut and behavior everywhere, and you
don't have to answer questions such as:
Why typing :42<enter> doesn't work in a workspace?
Thierry
Le 25/03/2014 14:30, Sven Van Caekenberghe a écrit :
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 ;-)
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