Re: Successfully merged projects

[Michael Creel]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:35 PM, John Swensen <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:11 AM, Jacob Dawid wrote:
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>> John,
>>
>> Would it be okay for you to introduce shortcuts to switch between terminal 
>> and editor fast?
>>
>
> I did as you suggested and forked to try making all the panels a QDockWidget 
> derivative.  I also am nearing completion of a QDockWidget with a QScintilla2 
> widget inside of it.  I will send you a pull request once I have this 
> completed.
>
> Having to switch between the command window and the editor is problematic.  I 
> will give a scenario.  Let's say I had either placed a breakpoint or a call 
> to keyboard in my code to stop at a point where I think I have a bug (or 
> other problems). While execution is suspended at that point, I want to query 
> variable sizes, try a few manipulations on the variables (e.g. eigenvalues, 
> eigenvectors, SVD,etc.).  It is much easier to see the entire chunk of 
> problematic code and start trying analysis on subsets of the problematic code 
> if both the editor and the command window are visible simultaneously.
>
> I can't guarantee it, but if you questioned people who use a command terminal 
> + their favorite editor for Octave, I would bet that they arrange their 
> windows so that the terminal and their editor do not overlap.
>
> John
>
>
>

>From the sidelines, I'll chip in with the comment that I like to use
all the screen space when I'm editing, and I like vim, FWIW. I'll be
interested to try this new work out, it sounds pretty exciting.
Michael