[news.eclipse.tools.cdt] Re: The purpose of "favourite" settings for lau

[Jonah Graham <jonahbugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Toralf Lund wrote:
> What exactly is the purpose of the "favourites" mechanism for launch 
> (run/debug) configurations? I mean, the only answer I've come up with so 
> far is "to control whether items are displayed above or below a 
> separator in the same menu", but this doesn't seem like much...
>
> Just wondering...
>
> - Toralf

Hi Toralf,

The answer you have come up with is correct, it is to control which side 
of the separator it comes up on. But that implies a couple of other 
things. 1) Favourites always appear on the menu, below the separator 
only has the 10 most recently used. 2) The favourite items are always in 
the same order (until you add/remove one), meaning that, unlike the most 
recently used list below it, its always in the same place. That makes it 
a little bit faster to run your favourite tasks.

There is another advantage to marking a launch as favourite. If you save 
the launch as a shared file in your project, simply having the project 
open or not controls whether that particular launch configuration 
appears in the menu.

I do agree with you, it isn't a big feature, and doesn't do much. But 
the little time savers like this is what makes Eclipse such a wonderful 
development environment.

Enjoy!
Jonah