[TxMt] Re: Combine Favorites & Files into one panel?

[Carpii UK]

Thought I'd give some feedback on how I use TM...

Not sure if my workflow is typical, but I don't use any of the Favorite
features, or even Recent File/Project.

I use Alfred to open all my projects (via mate), and then everything inside
TM is done via CMD+T
All my git is done via raw commandline, so I don't use the Uncommitted
Files tab either.

For the proposed new dialog, I wonder if Recent Projects and Recent Files
could be merged into one tab?

The icons will presumably be different anyway (folders vs files), and I'd
guess most people are just going to use the search textbox to find the item
they want, rather than scroll up and down the list with the mouse.
Its hard to say how the majority of people are using TM without some form
of a survey I guess.









On 24 June 2014 10:10, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:

> On 23 Jun 2014, at 23:35, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
>
>  Wouldn't it be reasonable to combine these both panels into single panel
>> with single ⇧⌘O shortcut?
>>
>
> I like to have different keys to get to the project versus file chooser.
> With a combined panel it would be ⇧⌘O potentially followed by ⌘1-n for the
> proper list, right? Could of course still have two keys similar to ⌘F and
> ⇧⌘F (which open same window but with different source selection).
>
> I do like the idea from a discoverability point of view (I wonder how many
> have actually noticed the “recent projects” panel).
>
> With 5 lists it does get a little crowded:
>
>  1. Recent documents
>  2. Recent projects
>  3. Open documents
>  4. Documents with (SCM) changes
>  5. Favorites
>
> Not sure if we can drop favorites — to be honest, this is a somewhat
> arcane feature and recent projects works better, main advantage of
> favorites is that they are always there, but could allow pinning recent
> projects/files, and also that the list can be initially populated (I sync
> my projects between machines and use a “folder symlink” for favorites, so
> it list all my projects).
>
> Anyone have thoughts about this?
>
>
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