automatic area switching

[Niko Sams]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:58, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 25.06.09 11:32:28, David Nolden wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 10:33:47 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > > Hmm, right. I'd like to hear more opinions about the switch back vs. not
> > > switch back, but if we decide to automatically switch back we could have a
> > > way of showing a certain toolviews in all areas...
> > Con, because I can think of cases where it would be very annoying: When I
> > debug a problem, find the buggy position through the debugger, and think to
> > myself "great, I can fix this right now", then I push "stop debugger", and
> > suddeny the documents that I wanted to work on are switched away.
>
> Interesting, myself I never stop the debugger for that (but that may well
> be a habit trained by my over-use of eclipse for java, where
> code-replacement is possible).
>
> But yes, that would be a problem (that we wouldn't have if documents
> wouldn't be part of the area ;). I agree that automatically switching back
> can be seen as "too much automation".
Why are documents part of the area?
Imho this is not needed - we have the workingsets for that now.
If I switch the area I want to debug/test the code I'm working on right now.

Niko