[Lazarus] Problem building for SPARC/Linux, and a couple of minor IDE wishlist items
I find that trunk+2.71 won't build as bigide, since PascalScript has no sparc.inc and it attempts to build for x86. I've raided this as http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25709 and suggest that for the moment PscalScript is excluded for that processor. It's OK on PPC, I've not checked others. Looking at the IDE, I find the "new" bar on the right of SynEdit useful but I wonder whether the developers would consider putting a digit marker rather than a rectangle to mark the position of a bookmark? That would allow a quick keyboard jump, and would also give an easy indication of what bookmark was on which page when multiple windows were open. Still on the IDE, I remember that editors such as MultiEdit had a command to reflow a paragraph to a predefined width. Is anything like that available in Lazarus, specifically to reformat comment blocks? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Problem building for SPARC/Linux, and a couple of minor IDE wishlist items
On 12/02/2014 16:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Looking at the IDE, I find the "new" bar on the right of SynEdit useful but I wonder whether the developers would consider putting a digit marker rather than a rectangle to mark the position of a bookmark? That would allow a quick keyboard jump, and would also give an easy indication of what bookmark was on which page when multiple windows were open. Nice idea. The "overview gutter is a big piece of unfinished work. All those thinks should be configurable. But I hawe not found the time to continue on it for a long time now. In is still on my list though. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Problem building for SPARC/Linux, and a couple of minor IDE wishlist items
Martin Frb wrote: On 12/02/2014 16:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Looking at the IDE, I find the "new" bar on the right of SynEdit useful but I wonder whether the developers would consider putting a digit marker rather than a rectangle to mark the position of a bookmark? That would allow a quick keyboard jump, and would also give an easy indication of what bookmark was on which page when multiple windows were open. Nice idea. The other possible enhancement would be putting bookmark markers on the page tags, but I'm assuming that implementation of those is buried deep in each widget set. Might be feasible to use some of the special circled-digit Unicode characters: not as pretty as the coloured markers, but adequately functional. The "overview gutter is a big piece of unfinished work. All those thinks should be configurable. But I hawe not found the time to continue on it for a long time now. In is still on my list though. Running Lazarus tunnelled over SSH I'm finding that scrollbar operations tend to "run away" with unintentional repeats on occasion, which means that an overview of where bookmarks and recent changes are works out quite nicely :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Problem building for SPARC/Linux, and a couple of minor IDE wishlist items
On 12/02/2014 20:03, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Martin Frb wrote: On 12/02/2014 16:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Looking at the IDE, I find the "new" bar on the right of SynEdit useful but I wonder whether the developers would consider putting a digit marker rather than a rectangle to mark the position of a bookmark? That would allow a quick keyboard jump, and would also give an easy indication of what bookmark was on which page when multiple windows were open. Nice idea. The other possible enhancement would be putting bookmark markers on the page tags, but I'm assuming that implementation of those is buried deep in each widget set. Might be feasible to use some of the special circled-digit Unicode characters: not as pretty as the coloured markers, but adequately functional. yes. Eventually this may become a custom drawn pagecontrol What I had thought to be useful (just a draft of the idea, details still may ripen): - A window that list s all the bookmarks, also shows the line of code, and if available the name of the enclosing function. - This window could provide room for more than 10 "remembered" locations (10 can have a shortcut, and are bookmarks) The "overview gutter is a big piece of unfinished work. All those thinks should be configurable. But I hawe not found the time to continue on it for a long time now. In is still on my list though. Running Lazarus tunnelled over SSH I'm finding that scrollbar operations tend to "run away" with unintentional repeats on occasion, which means that an overview of where bookmarks and recent changes are works out quite nicely :-) The part that I like really is to see where the implementation section starts. That is often where some important constants or similar are. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Problem building for SPARC/Linux, and a couple of minor IDE wishlist items
Martin Frb wrote: On 12/02/2014 20:03, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Martin Frb wrote: On 12/02/2014 16:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Looking at the IDE, I find the "new" bar on the right of SynEdit useful but I wonder whether the developers would consider putting a digit marker rather than a rectangle to mark the position of a bookmark? That would allow a quick keyboard jump, and would also give an easy indication of what bookmark was on which page when multiple windows were open. Nice idea. The other possible enhancement would be putting bookmark markers on the page tags, but I'm assuming that implementation of those is buried deep in each widget set. Might be feasible to use some of the special circled-digit Unicode characters: not as pretty as the coloured markers, but adequately functional. yes. Eventually this may become a custom drawn pagecontrol What I had thought to be useful (just a draft of the idea, details still may ripen): - A window that list s all the bookmarks, also shows the line of code, and if available the name of the enclosing function. - This window could provide room for more than 10 "remembered" locations (10 can have a shortcut, and are bookmarks) On a tablet sitting next to the keyboard :-) The "overview gutter is a big piece of unfinished work. All those thinks should be configurable. But I hawe not found the time to continue on it for a long time now. In is still on my list though. Running Lazarus tunnelled over SSH I'm finding that scrollbar operations tend to "run away" with unintentional repeats on occasion, which means that an overview of where bookmarks and recent changes are works out quite nicely :-) The part that I like really is to see where the implementation section starts. That is often where some important constants or similar are. I must admit that I only noticed that yesterday: my screens are fairly large but elderly so the contrast isn't as good as new ones. There's still the question of how this sort of thing works best with a split window (i.e. two parts of the same file shown on the same form). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Problem building for SPARC/Linux, and a couple of minor IDE wishlist items
On 13/02/2014 06:41, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I must admit that I only noticed that yesterday: my screens are fairly large but elderly so the contrast isn't as good as new ones. There's still the question of how this sort of thing works best with a split window (i.e. two parts of the same file shown on the same form). 2 parts/ same file, 1 large overview gutter. (gutter is NOT split) other scenarios, virtual files: - limiting the edit to one procedure ~ overview gutter also shows this procedure only ~ line number gutter starts at the real number (e.g. top line = 933) - include file displayed inlined ~ overview gutter also shows both files -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Problem building for SPARC/Linux, and a couple of minor IDE wishlist items
Martin Frb wrote: On 13/02/2014 06:41, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I must admit that I only noticed that yesterday: my screens are fairly large but elderly so the contrast isn't as good as new ones. There's still the question of how this sort of thing works best with a split window (i.e. two parts of the same file shown on the same form). 2 parts/ same file, 1 large overview gutter. (gutter is NOT split) The problem with that is that you're going to need a scrollbar for each pane, so you're heading towards a situation where you either have to have [multiple panes]|[single shared gutter]|[multiple scroll bars] or a non-standard [multiple panes]|[multiple scroll bars]|[single shared gutter] i.e. the scroll bar is no longer at the extreme right of the window where expected. other scenarios, virtual files: - limiting the edit to one procedure ~ overview gutter also shows this procedure only ~ line number gutter starts at the real number (e.g. top line = 933) - include file displayed inlined ~ overview gutter also shows both files -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
