[news.eclipse.tools] Re: bookmars..

["Bob Foster" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Georg Rehfeld" <georg.rehfeld@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > (The feature I really want is Back/Forward buttons like every browser
has. I
> > don't want to set bookmarks at all, I just want to go back where I was.
;-)
> You mean similar to what Acrobat Reader does? I found that a little
> bit annoing as they record all and every movement and thus the
> history gets painfully long. This would be even more worse with an
> editor, where the cursor can be moved freely. Should I really keep
> a history of every cursor change, or what do you mean?

I've never paid much attention to what Acrobat Reader does (in general, I
don't like the way it navigates). What I'd like it to see is what every
browser does. When you follow a link it remembers where you were immediately
before. Cursor movement has nothing to do with it. The nearest thing to an
link in Eclipse is a marker. Thus, the feature would remember the previous
location before every...

- Go to search result
- Go to error
- Go to bookmark
etc.

But browsers aren't perfect, either. What I really want is something that
goes back after discontinuities. If I scroll or page around in a file, I can
get back by unscrolling or unpaging. I can even un-Find by searching in the
opposite direction, though I find it cumbersome. But if I Go To Definition
there is no inverse. I would definitely want Back to do that. I would also
want Back to keep track of switching editor views.

How much history kept is not a problem. It would be easy to put a limit on
the number of locations remembered and easy to let the user decide how many.

Bob