> On 1 Jul 2018, at 01:28, PAUL DEBRUICKER <pdebr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was feeling lazy was wondered if it would be possible to hit Cmd-D or Cmd-I
> in the spotter input field rather than opening a playground and typing
> something in then hitting it. E.g.
>
>
> 1 + 1 Cmd-I
>
> would open an inspector on the number 2
>
>
> After looking at GTSpotter>>#spotterFor... methods I couldn't figure out how
> to make it happen in the half hour I had to spend on it.
>
>
> I recognize opening the playground is Cmd-O Cmd-W but I just open the spotter
> ~50x as often as a new playground so the muscle memory isn't there. If I
> could do quick one-liners in the spotter then the playground would get opened
> even less often.
In Pharo 7 you can actually use Spotter for calculations:
Cmd-Enter 1 + 2
gives you #Calculator 3
Even 42 factorial works.
It does not seem to work for general evaluation though ...
The tools that we had before Spotter did actually allow that.
