Hi Andrew, this is an interesting idea that has come up before. I searched around and could not find a bugzilla for it though, so I have created one:
I believe there were even some design mockups done for this in the past... I will see if I can dig them up and attach them to the bug.
The concern as always with the editor page is keeping it lightweight. Our page load performance has suffered with every new piece that gets added, and performance is critically important for usability in a web application. One possibility is that it could leverage the recent multi-editor support, where it would appear as simply another editor on the page. Certainly some of the editor features such as search would be valuable there. Or, it could be something very small and light-weight that links out to a separate page if you want to dig into more details or have more powerful features. Anyway, you are more than welcome to explore this!
Also, I checked the meeting calendar and it is accurate. We did have a call yesterday at 11am EDT so I am sorry to hear you weren't able to join it. Did you have trouble connecting or finding an appropriate number? There are different numbers available depending on where you are located. There is a complete list here:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Asterisk/Numbers
John
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Subject: [orion-dev] Orion console
Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2015 12:45 PM
Hi folks,
I’m looking into adding a console, similar to the console in Eclipse, where users can view the output of running their code. This would be useful for seeing the outputs of mocha tests, or even PyUnit tests (though PyUnit tests would involve a server-side component). Has any work gone into this already? I’d like to add the console at the bottom of the editor, with minimization functionality similar to the navigator.
Thanks,
Andrew Audibert
