hypertext-like jumping to function definitions

crackwitz · Post by **crackwitz** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:30 pm

Hi,

i am also developing with Borland Delphi / Builder and have grown fond of one feature best described as "hypertext jumping". you have a function call and would like to see the function definition. so you hold down ctrl, click on the function call and then the editor jumps to the definition. you also have "back" and "forward" buttons to jump back to where you were before the hypertext-like jump... especially useful in larger source codes.

another feature is a tree of all functions (and variables) found in the source. you can click them and jump to their definition. convenient, isn't it?

i know that these features are dependant of the document type and imply parsing the document for occurences of function definitions and calls, which decrease performance and are difficult to implement. though, i'd love to see such features in your great product.

what you you think of such stuff?

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:09 am

This has been asked a few times here, so there must be something to this

Feel free to vote on it here http://textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3933

Also, take a look at http://findtag.sourceforge.net , perhaps that's something you can use? - HTH

crackwitz · Post by **crackwitz** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:30 pm

thanks for the links. this add-on looks promising...

edit: hey, awesome tool! i used the assignments proposed in the readme.htm by the author and it is really convenient, since i am lefthanded and my right hand always hangs around near the "enter" key

love it, cannot live without it