Bart
on my radar I would like migrate one of the keybinding package of old squeak
Keymapper or Keybinding. I would like to have emacs like short
cuts..... (yeah ctrl-e ctrl-a....
If you want to have a look and see
> Dear all,
>
> On my job I'm using Java; and Eclipse as an IDE. I'm discovering Pharo since
> a year now. I find it in almost every way superior. But not on the following
> way. I use keyboard shortcuts heavily in Eclipse. I use them to quickly
> select parts of code, extract methods, rename methods, fields, classes,
> switch browsing windows, delete a line of code, copy and move lines of code.
> I tend to miss these shortcuts in Pharo.
Me too :)
> There are actually a lot of shortcuts
> (http://news.squeak.org/2007/01/26/looking-for-a-shortcut/ - Andreas
> comment). But I still find that I have to leave the keyboard way to often and
> use the mouse to navigate to another window / or part of the browser I'm
> working in. Let me explain that a bit further. I will try to give some
> examples of behaviour I'm missing in Pharo.
> - If I'm editing a class and working in the source view. I'm done, I want to
> run the tests again I just ran. I have to take the mouse, navigate to the
> class and hit Alt-t. Or use the test runner. In Eclipse there is a global
> shortcut Alt-F11 which just runs the test (or even better: the suite of
> tests) which ran previously. It moreover runs it in the background and if
> everything is still ok, does not bother you again. It only pops up if
> something broke. This behaviour is very handy if you're refactoring. You can
> then with every small change run all relevant tests in matter seconds and
> continue.
I want that :)
> - If I'm editing in the source pane. I'm done editing, and I want to navigate
> for instance to another method. I have to take the mouse to navigate to the
> methods, scroll and click on the new method. Again had to take the mouse. In
> Eclipse, there is a Ctrl-O shortcut which brings up a list of all methods in
> this class. At the top there is an input field in which I can start typing;
> while typing the list is restricted. I can then using the arrow keys navigate
> to the method and hit Enter, and I'm in the method.
> - For switching between browser windows Eclipse also does have a handy
> mechanism. Eclipse keeps in memory a list of files you're editing ordered by
> latests usage. I can then quickly navigate through the list by hitting
> Ctrl-F6. Just hitting Ctrl-F6 navigates to the previous window visited.
> Hitting it again gets back. If you however hit Ctrl - F6, keep the Ctrl
> pressed in, and hit F6 again, you navigate the the second last window edited.
> I use this behaviour constantly to navigate back and forth between the test
> you're writing and the implementation.
This is nice.
> - Eclipse also has very keyboard shortcut integration to select/delete parts
> of the code. Ctrl D deletes the current line. Alt arrow up / down moves the
> current line (or selection) up or down (while keeping the clipboard
> selection). Alt-Shift-arrow up/down copies the current line (or selection) up
> or down (while keeping the clipboard selection). Alt Shift Left arrow / right
> arrow does a nifty code selection: if the code compiles properly, it will
> with every next hit on left arrow select a larger block of code. So if my
> cursor is on a message send, it will first select the message send, next the
> receiver and the message send, next: if this was a nested, select the part
> out of that, and so forth. This is very handy if you for instance want to do
> a extract method refactoring on some part of the code. Just quickly select it
> using this Alt-Shift selection and extract it.
> - Which brings me to the refactoring shortcuts, which I'm missing the most.
> * The most important one is rename. In Eclipse if I select a field, a
> temporary var, a message, a class, anything that can be renamed; I can
> always hit Alt-Shift-R to rename it. I don't have to go into a menu, refactor
> class, or refactor method, or refactor source with the mouse to select
> rename. Just click on it, hit the shortcut, type the new name and hit Enter.
> * The next one is Extract Method. After quickly selecting I just hit
> Alt-Shift-M, give a name (Eclipse guesses a name) and I extract.
> * Another very useful one is Extract Local Variable using Alt Shift L.
>
> I'm very well aware of the fact that in Smalltalk you typically only need
> half of the lines of code to achieve the same, but still I'm missing this
> kind of behaviour to quickly navigate, adapt code, run tests, ...
> All the tools are there in Pharo, but I just feel that they need a little
> better keyboard integration.
> How are experienced Smalltalkers feeling about this?
We want that!
I hate to be forced to use mouse. We should reinvent code editing.
> Are there any solutions available already that I haven't found ? If not, I'm
> more than happy to implement some of these, but my knowledge of Morphic is
> still rather limited. Can anyone provide me with some pointers how to achieve
> that?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bart
>
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