On 09.03.2005, at 11:14, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Mar 8, 2005, at 20:49, Lang Riley wrote:
Just want to throw this out there: (1) place bookmark in file at the signature of a Ruby method (2) comment out the whole method displaces the bookmark so that it now moves itself to be after the commented out code? Seems strange to me. Feature or bug? I love bookmarks though : )
Unfortunately when running a transformation (like a command) on the selection, there isn't any easy way for me to keep the location of meta-data (like bookmarks).
I guess I could look into some heuristics, like when the number of lines are the same, it should re-use line numbers etc. -- but it's unfortunately not that simple to implement, and it'll always be very easy to break whatever I come up with...
Just thinking out loud..
Maybe you could store the actual information as a special character attribute (an invisible style, if you like) and just display a bookmark symbol in every line that contains such characters.
What are the semantics of a bookmark? Does a bookmark mark a line number? Or the actual content of a line?
As I mentioned before, I think that automatic bookmarks (based on language-specific regex) are way superior to custom bookmarks: Their behaviour is well-defined, and they can be calculated on the fly (no need to store file metadata).
Cheers, -Ralph.