> On 17 Oct 2014, at 02:40, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: >> On 16 Oct 2014, at 22:34, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I too miss the old workspace sometimes. Mostly for "printIt". Playgrounds >>> printIt-popup is good, but sometimes I want exactly that: "print it". >>> On "Esc", the popup closes , but the code is still selected. Most of the >>> time I >>> want to go on typing, but first I have to unselect the code. >>> >>> Suggestions: >>> on "Esc" close the popup and unselect the current selection >>> >>> Good point. >> +1 >>> on "Enter" insert the printIt-result. >>> >>> Indeed, this is something I thought of, too. However, I am not convinced >>> that the frequency of needing to insert the result of "print it" warrants a >>> shortcut > > I often have a few lines of snippets listed in a Workspace that I want to > compare the results, or copy/paste the lot to some documentation. > I was thinking of asking for a <pin> icon/button, but inserting as text is a > better idea. > >>> that can be so easily use (i.e., Enter can be used also for adding a line). >>> Right now, if you want to insert, you do Cmd+c, Esc, Cmd+v. > > I would go for <space> rather than <enter>, since intuitively that keeps you > on the same line.
but also enter means “accept” in everybody’s brain (and other tools prefer that over space). anyway, +1 to that… is something that I really miss. Esteban > > >> I also don't think 'Print It' is not that common, and if you use it you want >> the output to be in a comment anyway so the syntax highlighting doesn't make >> everything red. > > When the result is inserted, surrounding it by comment quotes is a good idea. > > cheers -ben > > >> I also wanted to add that the whole idea of GT-Tools is to do a lot and even >> more powerful things based on a few simple concepts. >> We are currently making lots of small usability changes, which is all good, >> but we have to guard the simplicity. > >
