On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Frank Shearar <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > +1 exactly my sentiment.. > 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 > > > > > >
