[TxMt] interesting bookmark behavior

[Ralph Pöllath]

On 09.03.2005, at 18:09, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:52, Ralph Pöllath wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Generally the text goes through an external command, so I can't keep 
> character attributes -- I can however use unicode replacement (object) 
> characters for meta-data, but not all commands would like this.

Right, I missed that.

>> 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).
>
> That really depends on the purpose of bookmarks. For me, I have at 
> most 3-4 bookmarks in my source code, and that are the hot spots I 
> work on -- so I use a bookmark if I want to leave the current function 
> but have a way to quickly return, or jump back and forth between two 
> places in my source.

Same here. I didn't mean to say they were useless..

> Auto-generated bookmarks based on regex really sounds like a rather 
> different functionality (this is more like the requested function 
> popup) --

Exactly what I was referring to :-)

> for this purpose I'm introducing a way to query the source code using 
> an xpath-inspired system (with source structure provided by the syntax 
> files), which will make the way for function popups and more (e.g. 
> also list of included files, variables in current class etc., all 
> defined as queries -- but this is currently something I experiment 
> with and not set in stone).

Sounds awesome! Can't wait to see this in a beta..

Cheers,
-Ralph.