On 22 February 2012 21:12, Stefan Marr <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 22 Feb 2012, at 21:52, Frank Shearar wrote: > >> But I think such a plugin would be missing the point. What I want is >> to be able to see a lot more source on my screen than one method at a >> time. Do you remember the Whisker Browser a few years ago? It let you >> view and edit multiple methods at a time, across multiple classes. >> That was pretty neat. > > You refer to this one? > http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/study/courses/OMP/public/software/sqcdrom2/Packages/Tools/Whisker/ > > Cool, but I like the feeling of Newspeaks' one still better (random link with > screenshots: > http://langexplr.blogspot.com/2009/04/writing-small-twitter-client-with.html)
I confess I find the Brazil browser deeply confusing and, when I started getting the hang of it, found it even more "pinhole-y" than the standard browser. I started a project to build a SLIME-like REPL to a running Newspeak image, but I've so far merely written a minor mode (https://github.com/frankshearar/newspeak-mode). I will at some point pick up that work again. > Is there actually anyone who would be interested to break with the > Smalltalk's traditional approach? Well, me! One thing that would make my life considerably easier is a MessageSet-like browser that "flattened" the methods, so they were displayed one above the other - simulating a text file, in other words. So many times I want to look at how a set of classes implement some method. frank > -- > Stefan Marr > Software Languages Lab > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > Phone: +32 2 629 2974 > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > >
