How useful is documentview grouping?

[Matt Rogers]

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 16:16:49 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to implement file-navigation history in the near future and am
> thinking about re-using the documentview for that (showing it when
> starting to switch between files and hiding it then as well).
>
> Obviously if that happens the grouping is a bit of a problem, so I'm
> wondering (as I don't use documentview myself) how useful the grouping
> is at all. Would it be a real problem if we loose the grouping and
> instead have a most-recently-used list of files?
>

Yes, it would be a problem. The grouping provides a distinction between a C++ 
Source file and a C++ header file, for example, making it quite easy to find the 
difference between task.cpp and task.h w/o having to scan the whole list item.

The grouping is the main reason i use documentview.
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Matt