and just another thing :) I think search patterns are a bit naive now (just matching begin of line). We could benefit from regex searchs and/or that search stuff made by Damien… I do not remember the name, but it has a name) that thing that you type “abc” and it will find - abc - absoluteBinaryCapability - AbstractBlooperContext - etc
I think it is a super functionality (and it was fast), that should be included by default. Esteban > On 10 Jun 2016, at 08:55, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ah, and I forget one very important: the menu! I almost do not use the older > menu anymore :) > > Esteban > >> On 10 Jun 2016, at 08:54, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com >> <mailto:esteba...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I need to enable data collect ;) >> >> in my case, I’m a happy Spotter user… I even have a plugin I made for my own >> that fits my way of work with repositories… anyway, I wanted to point: >> >> - I use a lot Classes/Methods/Packages... and catalog >> - never used Senders/References/Pragmas because I do not find them easily >> (then is easier to search the class, then hit references) >> - some categories seems confusing >> - some other are not “for extensive use” but they are very useful: files, >> monticello package, playground >> - this is more for the playground: I never understood why we need a >> difference between cached pages and named ones (a cached can just be named >> cached-1… etc) >> >> I would be even happier is Yuriy extends his GitHub baseline plugin to scan >> subdirectories (most github projects keep mc data into a subdirectory) :) >> >> cheers! >> Esteban >> >>> On 10 Jun 2016, at 08:42, Max Leske <maxle...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:maxle...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Doru, >>> >>> I just want to point out that history may possibly be a bit of a false >>> positive. When I open spotter, type and hit enter quickly I sometimes hit >>> an entry from history that I didn’t intend to (one annoying example of this >>> is ProcessBrowser which I regularly hit accidentally when searching for >>> Process). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Max >>> >>> >>>> On 10 Jun 2016, at 00:56, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com >>>> <mailto:tu...@tudorgirba.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Juraj, Andrei and I did a rough analysis collected from 94 computers over >>>> the past 7 months. Of these, only 42 recorded more than 9 sessions so we >>>> only focused on these. It can be because the rest switched off the data >>>> collection in the meantime. We also excluded the computers of the GT team >>>> members. >>>> >>>> Of these 34 used the dive-in feature. That is, these users used at least >>>> one contextual search. >>>> >>>> We looked at the event of acting on an element (pressing Enter), and we >>>> collected the parent category. Acting on an item indicates that intent of >>>> search. There are 35 categories used in total, with 8 being used by 10 >>>> people (25% of the studied population) or more. Below you can see also the >>>> amount of computers using it: >>>> >>>> <spotter-categories-distribution.png> >>>> >>>> 'Classes'->40 >>>> 'Implementors'->38 >>>> 'History'->34 >>>> 'Menu'->24 >>>> 'Packages'->23 >>>> 'Messages'->19 >>>> 'Catalog Projects'->12 >>>> 'Instance methods'->10 >>>> 'Senders'->9 >>>> 'Pragmas'->6 >>>> 'References'->5 >>>> 'Playground named pages'->5 >>>> 'Playground cached pages'->4 >>>> 'Help topics'->4 >>>> 'Examples'->3 >>>> 'Super instance methods'->3 >>>> 'Selectors'->3 >>>> 'ws.stfx.eu <http://ws.stfx.eu/>'->2 >>>> 'GitHub Baselines'->2 >>>> 'Dirty Monticello packages'->2 >>>> 'Class methods'->2 >>>> 'Global variables'->1 >>>> 'All subclasses'->1 >>>> 'Example Subjects'->1 >>>> 'Files'->1 >>>> 'Monticello Repositories'->1 >>>> 'Metacello Configurations'->1 >>>> 'Class instance variables'->1 >>>> 'Items'->1 >>>> 'Tags'->1 >>>> 'Help contents'->1 >>>> 'Monticello Package'->1 >>>> 'Instance variables'->1 >>>> 'Productions'->1 >>>> 'Methods'->1 >>>> >>>> Also, in this analysis, some of the categories appear also at deeper >>>> levels (Senders, Implementors, References, Instance methods). >>>> >>>> As expected, Classes and Implementors are on top. Yet, the third is >>>> History, and it is also interesting to see that there is a high usage of a >>>> search through the World menu elements, but also of the Packages. >>>> >>>> We also note that there is quite a long tail, and this seems to confirm >>>> the hypothesis that different people have different needs and that these >>>> differences should be supported by the IDE. >>>> >>>> This analysis was carried out using the code that Juraj and Andrei put >>>> together for analyzing the data from the event recorder. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Doru >>>> >>>> -- >>>> www.tudorgirba.com <http://www.tudorgirba.com/> >>>> www.feenk.com <http://www.feenk.com/> >>>> >>>> "Value is always contextual." >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
