On Feb 7, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Feb 6, 2005, at 20:07, Brad Miller wrote:
Here's a suggestion that came to me this morning. How about applying the wonderful logic in the file chooser to commands and macros? I was thinking of it being very much like Quicksilver for TextMate commands.
Ah yes -- but how is this best done? intermixed with files? only Command/Snippet/Macro intermixed with files and these give a 'submenu' (i.e. arrow right change the content)? And should each submenu show all items (maybe with the bundle as prefix)?
When I was thinking about this, I was thinking of it as a completely separate from files. So command-T to use the file chooser, and command-M to use the command chooser (for example). The idea is one easily accessible keystroke that lets me search commands. I'm not even sure you would want to include snippets would you?
I think the same interface used for files could display the closest matching,/only matching command (along with the bundle it comes from and the pre-programmed keystroke) I would also have it only show commands from bundles that are enabled.
I'm imagining that you would type enough keystrokes that a short flat display would show you all the matches, so you would not need any hierarchical submenus. QS, for example, guesses right 95% of the time, and 99% of the time the thing I want is in the top four or five items on the list of possibilities.
Brad
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