Design of MRU-Navigation wrt. Split-Views

[Alexander Dymo]

On Sunday 15 February 2009 22:14:46 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > == Eclipse 3.4.1 ==
> > - each mainwindow has its own navigation history
> > - split views share the common navigation history:
> > 	- opening file (in another split view) creates an entry in the common
> > history
>
> So I'd have
> foobar.cpp
> foobar.cpp
> When "split current document vertically"? 
Almost :) You need to force Eclipse to create new editor first, then split. 
But when you do so, Eclipse breaks its otherwise logical model. Its history 
doesn't differentiate between movements inside the same file in different 
split views. 
Hard to explain this, but you'll see when you try ;)

> I this case IMHO a thin border
> around the related view or some text which view would be activated would be
> good.
Right, we should have it.

> > 	- switching between files in different split views also creates an entry
> Thats focussing a file in a different split view than the current one,
> right?
Yes.

> > Netbean's MRU without "forward" button is ok, but it's rather unusual to
> > see alt-tab'ish behavior in the editor.
>
> Well, I was actually going to do that too, using Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab to
> switch forward/backward in the history. Or did I understand that wrong?
No, imagine you don't have "ctrl-shift-tab" or "alt-shift-tab", only "alt-
tab". And it behaves just like alt-tab in KWin.