[PyKDE] [eric3] file/class browser

[Detlev Offenbach]

Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2005 21:48 schrieb Diez B. Roggisch:
> > How should the editor know, which class a variable belongs to. Python is
> > a dynamically typed language. This means, that the type of an object is
> > determined at runtime. This is a very big difference to C++ or Java,
> > where a scanner can parse the source and determine the type of an object
> > even before the code is compiled.
>
> I'm pretty well aware of that - but I'm talking about visiting a file
> via the tabs, detecting code in it like
>
> self.foobar()
>
> and then one wants to visit foobar - which is located in the same file.
> So syncing the classbrowser with the currently visited file is nice. No
> reflection/type inference here.
>
> > Somebody recommended to make a toolbar with an entry for the search
> > expression and a find and find next button. The search should use the
> > flags set last time the search dialog was used. How about that?
>
> The important part for me would be that it's fully Key-operated - in
> emacs, I press C-s for forward search, then start typing which does
> incrementally search. Pressing C-c twice makes the last search
> expression appear. C-r does the same backwards.
>
> Displaying the search term in a toolbar is ok, but the advantage of the
> minibuffer-style is that it occupies precious screenspace only when needed.
>
> >>And the ability to search forward/backward from the current cursor
> >>position with possible wrap arounds instead of always beginning at the
> >>top would also be great. Any chances for this?
> >
> > That is in. Just select the backwards checkbox and select Find Again (or
> > press F3).
>
> It's not about searching backward, but about searching from the cursor
> position - instead of the beginnig, which is AFAIK the eric behaviour
> .I'm on my mac now and haven't eric running, so I can't check that out -
> but I was annoyed by that, and usually I know how to operate GUIs so I'd
> seen an option that changes that behaviour - I hope at least.

Search next does exactly that. It searches the entered string starting at the 
cursor position.

>
>
> Regards,
>
> Diez

Detlev
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