Re: [Anjuta-list] tag and session support

[Andy Piper <andy piper freeuk com>]

Hi,

On 2001.11.07 15:13 Luciano Chavez wrote:
> I've recently come back to Anjuta after a long time using
> Visual SlickEdit. It has improved quite a bit.

Thanks! :-)

> Slick will show a function call tooltip if
> you hold it over a function as well. I saw this happen in
> Anjuta once but it isn't consistent.

Yeah, this appears to be broken at the moment - I'm not sure why 
- I've posted a request for help to the development mailing 
list. It's a feature we gain from using Scintilla as the editing 
component of Anjuta.

> Glimmer does have one feature that Slick has which is autosave
> of a session. That is, it keeps track of the files that were 
> being
> edited and the last location in the file so that when Glimmer 
> is
> reloaded, you are brought back to where you were.

This is probably tied in with the use of the GNOME session 
manager calls and stuff. We don't use that in Anjuta today - I 
did suggest it a while ago, but at the moment we do our own 
property and session management. This will almost certainly come 
in Anjuta2, if no-one writes it for Anjuta1.

> Anjuta 0.1.7 shows signs of tag support but it appears tied to
> creating a project. Adding files seems limited to a file at a 
> time as
> opposed to saying pickup headers in /usr/include tree.

Exactly - everything is tied in to the project manager at 
present. Biswa was working on a separate tags manager but that 
has not been integrated yet. The new project management stuff is 
targeted for Anjuta2.

> The autocomplete doesn't seem to do what I expect.
> If I type a function name, it only seems to autocomplete
> (if I explicity select autocomplete) the name not the
> argument list.

Again, inherited from Scintilla. You get autocompletion of the 
word, based on previous use of the word in the same file - but 
it isn't like Visual Studio's autocomplete. By the way, you can 
use Ctl+Return to bring up the drop down list, you don't need to 
use the toolbar or menu item.

> Hopefully I have not missed how to use these features if they 
> already
> exist in Anjuta. It would be great if they were already there 
> and
> someone could steer me as to how they should be used.

Hmmm.... sorry :-/
It is possible that they will go in soon, but more likely you 
may have to wait for the next generation stuff which is based on 
Bonobo and much more flexible.

Andy

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