hypertext-like jumping to function definitions
Posted: 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?
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?
