Re: documentation window scrolls its contents spontaneously
Re: documentation window scrolls its contents spontaneously
- Subject: Re: documentation window scrolls its contents spontaneously
- From: Gerd Knops <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:09:26 -0500
On Sep 4, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Ronald Hayden wrote:
Can you say why you miss them? Perhaps there's a way to provide
that info without the tooltip.
I'll reiterate that -- we're about to do a lot of work on how the
reference is presented, and if we know what people value about the
current layout (including tooltips), we can incorporate that into
our plans.
I often used them when looking for just the right method to use for a
problem at hand. Much faster to hover over a few candidates to get a
few more details then to click, read, scroll back up and find where
you were, check out the next etc.
Plus now the little (i) icon behind the method names is kind of
pointless.
Of course my workflow is different that most folks. I mostly use
TextMate to edit my code, and use a Launchbar-like program of my own
design to open documentation in Safari. Hotkey +"NS" + 1 or 2
characters get me to 99% of the documentation I regularly consult.
I am liking recent Xcode editors better and it does offer ways to
emulate most of the stuff I use in TM. But there are still things I
would miss dearly. For example I use an NSLog like variant that
prefixes all output with the name and line number of the source code
it came from. In TM I that allows me to just click on the output and
get to that line in the editor. Most handy! I think that (and the to
me at least non-intuitive window layouts, all three of them seem to
have one annoying property or other) make me stick with TM. OTOH
having to maintain projects in each is a PITA.
There is other little nits in Xcode too, for example no git support,
using a user script to replace the entire text with one having the
same number of lines causes the window to scroll a few lines etc.
Gerd
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