Document Selector Listed by Directory
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 2:44 pm
I would like to suggest two improvements to the document selector
1. Show a hierarchical list for the open documents, possibly just a simple two level thing with the simple file indented two spaces under the directory.
For example (lead dots to represent space indentations):
c:\mydirectory
..File1
..File2
..File3
c:\myOtherDirectory
..File1
..File2
2. If a directory or file is too long to display edit out the middle with an elipses. For Example:
c:\my\long\directory\path\that\does\not\fit
..File1
..File2
would become, perhaps
c:\my\lon...es\not\fit
..File1
..File2
I frequently work with multiple java packages in their respective directories, and end up opening several copies of TextPad to keep the package classes from getting "all mixed up".
I also tend to have fairly deep path names, so switching on full path names in the selector displays, rather uselessly, things like:
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
1. Show a hierarchical list for the open documents, possibly just a simple two level thing with the simple file indented two spaces under the directory.
For example (lead dots to represent space indentations):
c:\mydirectory
..File1
..File2
..File3
c:\myOtherDirectory
..File1
..File2
2. If a directory or file is too long to display edit out the middle with an elipses. For Example:
c:\my\long\directory\path\that\does\not\fit
..File1
..File2
would become, perhaps
c:\my\lon...es\not\fit
..File1
..File2
I frequently work with multiple java packages in their respective directories, and end up opening several copies of TextPad to keep the package classes from getting "all mixed up".
I also tend to have fairly deep path names, so switching on full path names in the selector displays, rather uselessly, things like:
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...
c:\data\programming\java\co...